Stressful Environments in the Cyborg Society and Possible Epigenetic Implications
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https://doi.org/10.21664/2238-8869.2018v7i2.p186-201Keywords:
Cyborg society, Progress, Epigenetics, stressAbstract
This article shows the social changes that have occurred in recent years. In postmodernity, the number of non-places in cities has increased, and cities are becoming increasingly stressful. All this has epigenetic consequences that must be taken into account in the design of cities. In the text, a review is made of current research on stress and its epigenetic implications. Finally, a set of considerations that could mitigate the impact of stress in large cities are presented.
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Cao-Lei L, Veru F, Elgbeili G, Szyf M, Laplante DP, King S 2016. DNA methylation mediates the effect of exposure to prenatal maternal stress on cytokine production in children at age 13½ years: Project Ice Storm. Clinical Epigenetics 8:54. Disponible: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-016-0219-0.
Coca JR 2010. La comprensión de la tecnociencia, Hergué, Huelva (España).
Coca JR, Valero-Matas JA 2013. Rururbanidad cyborg. Aproximación tecnocientífica a un modelo graduado de lo rural. Revista ITEA 109(2):150-168.
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Gimeno Sacristán J 1998. Poderes inestables en educación, Morata, Madrid.
Ginev D 2016. Hermeneutic Realism. Reality Within Scientific Inquiry, Springer, Dordrecht.
Glaeser E 2011. Cities, Productivity, and Quality of Life. Science 333(6042):592-594. Disponible: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1209264.
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Goll MG, Bestor TH 2005. Eukaryotic cytosine methyltransferases. Annu Rev Biochem, 74:481-514. Disponible: https://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.biochem.74.010904.153721.
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Jameson F 1996. Teoría de la Postmodernidad, Trotta, Madrid.
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Lipovetsky G 1986. La era del vacío, Anagrama, Barcelona.
Luhmann N 1998. Sistemas sociales. Lineamientos para una teoría social, Anthropos, Barcelona.
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Meloni M 2014. How biology became social, and what it means for social theory. The Sociological Review 62(3):593-614.
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Narváez A 2012. Ciudades inimaginables. El imaginario hegemónico tras la globalización, UANL, México.
Neil L, Conde C, Kulkarni J, Nyong A, Pulbin J 2008. Climate Change and Vulnerability, Earthscan, London UK.
Peschansky VJ, Wahlestedt C 2014. Non-coding RNAs as direct and indirect modulators of epigenetic regulation. Epigenetics, 9(1):3-12. Disponible: https://dx.doi.org/10.4161/epi.27473.
Rosa H 2013. Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity, Columbia University Press, New York.
Romá C 2016. La epigenética, Libros de la catarata, Madrid.
Sachsenmeier P 2016. How to Avoid and Mitigate Stress in Megacities. Engineering 2(2):154 -155. Disponible: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ENG.2016.02.014.
Sennett R 1998. The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism, W. W. Norton & Company, London/New York.
Smith RJ, Arnaud P, Kelsey G 2004. Identification and properties of imprinted genes and their control elements. Cytogenet Genome Res, 105(2-4):335-345. Disponible: https://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000078206.
Stankiewicz AM, Swiergiel AH, Lisowski P 2013. Epigenetics of stress adaptations in the brain. Brain Res Bull 98:76-92. Disponible: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2013.07.003.
Tamashiro KLK, Nguyen MMN, Sakai RR 2005. Social stress: From rodents to primates. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 26 (1):27-40.
Verona RI, Mann MR, Bartolomei MS 2003. Genomic imprinting: intricacies of epigenetic regulation in clusters. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol, 19:237-259. Disponible: https://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.cellbio. 19.111401.092717.
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Zemach A, McDaniel IE, Silva P, Zilberman D 2010. Genome-wide evolutionary analysis of eukaryotic DNA methylation. Science, 328(5980):916-919. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1186366
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COCA, Juan R.; PIEDRAS, Isabel Castro. Stressful Environments in the Cyborg Society and Possible Epigenetic Implications. Fronteiras - Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science, [S. l.], v. 7, n. 2, p. 186–201, 2018. DOI: 10.21664/2238-8869.2018v7i2.p186-201. Disponível em: https://revistas.unievangelica.edu.br/index.php/fronteiras/article/view/2955. Acesso em: 22 dec. 2024.
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