Title
Epigenetic aspects of multiple sclerosis and future therapeutic options
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
review
Author(s)
University of Limerick
Publisher(s)
Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Abstract
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease accompanied by demyelination of neurons in the central nervous system that mostly affects young adults, especially women. This disease has two phases including relapsing-remitting form (RR-MS) by episodes of relapse and periods of clinical remission and secondary-progressive form (SP-MS), which causes more disability. The inheritance pattern of MS is not exactly identified and there is an agreement that it has a complex pattern with an interplay among environmental, genetic and epigenetic alternations. Epigenetic mechanisms that are identified for MS pathogenesis are DNA methylation, histone modification and some microRNAs’ alternations. Several cellular processes including apoptosis, differentiation and evolution can be modified along with epigenetic changes. Some alternations are associated with epigenetic mechanisms in MS patients and these changes can become key points for MS therapy. Therefore, the aim of this review was to discuss epigenetic mechanisms that are associated with MS pathogenesis and future therapeutic approaches.
Start page
56
End page
64
Volume
131
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Genética humana
Neurociencias
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85096890825
PubMed ID
Source
International Journal of Neuroscience
ISSN of the container
00207454
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