DNA methylation as the most important content of epigenetics in traditional Chinese herbal medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine is commonly used in China and so many other Asian and western Countries. Epigenetics relates to heritable alternations in chromatin architecture that do not involve changes in the underlying DNA sequence but profoundly affect gene expression and impact cellular function. Epigenetic regulation is attained by specific mechanisms involving DNA methylation, histone p...
Source: Journal of Medicinal Plants Research - Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research