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Epigenetics: a link between addiction and social environment

Overview of attention for article published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, March 2017
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Title
Epigenetics: a link between addiction and social environment
Published in
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, March 2017
DOI 10.1007/s00018-017-2493-1
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Duyilemi C. Ajonijebu, Oualid Abboussi, Vivienne A. Russell, Musa V. Mabandla, William M. U. Daniels

Abstract

The detrimental effects of drug abuse are apparently not limited to individuals but may also impact the vulnerability of their progenies to develop addictive behaviours. Epigenetic signatures, early life experience and environmental factors, converge to influence gene expression patterns in addiction phenotypes and consequently may serve as mediators of behavioural trait transmission between generations. The majority of studies investigating the role of epigenetics in addiction do not consider the influence of social interactions. This shortcoming in current experimental approaches necessitates developing social models that reflect the addictive behaviour in a free-living social environment. Furthermore, this review also reports on the advancement of interventions for drug addiction and takes into account the emerging roles of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors in the etiology of drug addiction and that HDAC may be a potential therapeutic target at nucleosomal level to improve treatment outcomes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Argentina 1 <1%
Unknown 148 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 17%
Student > Bachelor 24 16%
Student > Master 16 11%
Researcher 12 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Other 22 15%
Unknown 40 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 22 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 15 10%
Psychology 15 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 7%
Other 26 17%
Unknown 48 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 December 2019.
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#6,422,288
of 23,794,258 outputs
Outputs from Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
#1,351
of 4,151 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#101,102
of 312,166 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
#15
of 55 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,794,258 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,151 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its peers.
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