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Ouch! Pain genes affected by lifestyle

机译:哎哟!受生活方式影响的疼痛基因

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If you flinch where others merely frown, you might want to take a look at your lifestyle. That's because environmental factors may have returned your genes to make you more sensitive to pain. "We know that stressful life events such as diet, smoking, drinking and exposure to pollution all have effects on your genes, but we didn't know if they specifically affected pain genes," says Tim Spectorof King's College London. Now, a study of identical twins suggests they do. It seems that epigenetic changes - environmentally triggered chemical alterations that affect how active your genes are - can dial your pain threshold up or down. This implies that tweaks of this kind, such as the addition of one or more methyl groups to a gene, may account for some differences in how our senses operate. Spector and his colleagues assessed the ability of hundreds of pairs of twins to withstand the heat of a laser on their skin, a standard pain test.
机译:如果您退缩到其他人只是皱眉的地方,您可能想看看自己的生活方式。那是因为环境因素可能已经使您的基因返回,使您对疼痛更加敏感。 “我们知道,饮食,吸烟,饮酒和暴露于污染等压力大的生活事件都会对您的基因产生影响,但我们不知道它们是否特别影响疼痛基因,”伦敦金学院的蒂姆·斯佩克托罗说。现在,对同卵双胞胎的研究表明它们确实如此。表观遗传的变化-环境触发的化学变化会影响基因的活跃程度-似乎可以使您的痛苦阈值上升或下降。这意味着这种调整(例如向一个基因添加一个或多个甲基)可能会导致我们的感觉运作方式有所差异。 Spector和他的同事评估了数百对双胞胎承受皮肤上的激光热量的能力,这是标准的疼痛测试。

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    《New scientist》 |2014年第2955期|12-12|共1页
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    Andy Coghlan;

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  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);美国《化学文摘》(CA);
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