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Welcome To The Journal Of Evolution And Health, Aaron Blaisdell, Paul Jaminet, David C. Pendergrass Oct 2013

Welcome To The Journal Of Evolution And Health, Aaron Blaisdell, Paul Jaminet, David C. Pendergrass

Aaron P Blaisdell

Welcome to the first issue of the Journal of Evolution and Health! The Journal of Evolution and Health is the peer-reviewed, open-access journal of the Ancestral Health Society, a community of scientists, healthcare professionals, and laypersons who collaborate to understand health challenges from an evolutionary perspective.


A Mechanistic Hypothesis Of The Factors That Enhance Vulnerability To Nicotine Use In Females, Laura O'Dell May 2013

A Mechanistic Hypothesis Of The Factors That Enhance Vulnerability To Nicotine Use In Females, Laura O'Dell

Laura Elena O'Dell

Women are particularly more vulnerable to tobacco use than men. This review proposes a unifying hypothesis that females experience greater rewarding effects of nicotine and more intense stress produced by withdrawal than males. We also provide a neural framework whereby estrogen promotes greater rewarding effects of nicotine in females via enhanced dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc). During withdrawal, we suggest that corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) stress systems are sensitized and promote a greater suppression of dopamine release in the NAcc of females versus males. Taken together, females display enhanced nicotine reward via estrogen and amplified effects of withdrawal via …


Conditional Knockdown Of Dna Methyltransferase-1 (Dnmt1) Reveals A Key Role Of Retinal Pigment Epithelium In Mammalian Photoreceptor Differentiation, I. O. Nasonkin, S. L. Merbs, K. Lazo, V. F. Oliver, M. Brooks, K. Patel, Raymond Enke, J. Nellissery, M. Jamrich, Y. Z. Le, K. Bharti, R. N. Fariss, R. A. Rachel, D. J. Zack, E. Rodriguez-Boulan, A. Swaroop Dec 2012

Conditional Knockdown Of Dna Methyltransferase-1 (Dnmt1) Reveals A Key Role Of Retinal Pigment Epithelium In Mammalian Photoreceptor Differentiation, I. O. Nasonkin, S. L. Merbs, K. Lazo, V. F. Oliver, M. Brooks, K. Patel, Raymond Enke, J. Nellissery, M. Jamrich, Y. Z. Le, K. Bharti, R. N. Fariss, R. A. Rachel, D. J. Zack, E. Rodriguez-Boulan, A. Swaroop

Ray Enke Ph.D.

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