Obesity, the other pandemic: linking diet and carcinogenesis by epigenetic mechanisms.
J Nutr Biochem
; 108: 109092, 2022 10.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1983513
ABSTRACT
Both obesity and cancer are complex medical conditions that are considered public health problems. The influence of obesity on the predisposition to develop various types of cancer has been observed in a wide variety of studies. Due to their importance as public health problems, and the close relationship between both conditions, it is important to be able to understand and associate them mechanistically. In this review article, we intend to go a little further, by finding relationships between lifestyle, which can lead a person to develop obesity, and how it influences at the cellular and molecular level, affecting gene expression to favor signaling pathways or transcriptional programs involved in cancer. We describe how products of metabolism and intermediate metabolism can affect chromatin structure, participating in the regulation (or dysregulation) of gene expression, and we show an analysis of genes that are responsive to diets high in sugar and fat, and how their epigenetic landscape is altered.
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International databases
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Epigenesis, Genetic
/
Pandemics
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J Nutr Biochem
Journal subject:
Biochemistry
/
Nutritional Sciences
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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