What is the molecular signature of mind-body interventions? A systematic review of gene expression changes induced by meditation and related practices

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue JUN, 2017, Pages

  Buric, Ivana ^a,b   Farias, Miguel ^a   Jong, Jonathan ^a   Mee, Christopher ^a   Brazil, Inti A ^a,b,c,d  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Pompestichting   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conserved transcriptional response to adversity; Gene expression; Inflammation; Meditation; Mind body; Nuclear factor kappa B; Stress; Yoga

Indexed keywords

HISTONE DEACETYLASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR; TELOMERASE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIOINFORMATICS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC STRESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN REGULATION; FATIGUE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; INSOMNIA; IRRITABLE COLON; LEISURE; LEUKOCYTE; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; LONELINESS; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEUTROPHIL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 85021250744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.00670     Document Type: Review

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