Moshe Szyf: How early life experience is written into DNA
Moše Šif (Moshe Szyf): Kako se rana životna iskustva ispisuju u DNK
Moshe Szyf's research is focused on understanding the broad implications of epigenetic mechanisms in human behavior, health and disease. Full bio
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from McGill, Michael Meaney.
in how mother rats lick their pups
kako majke pacovi ližu svoje mlade
dollars are wasted --
na veoma različite načine.
when they become adults --
nakon što postanu odrasli -
long after their mother died.
dugo nakon što im je majka uginula.
and groomed heavily,
as intensively by their mothers.
nisu tako snažno pazile.
the "bad mother" gene
budu pod stresom,
from generation to generation;
s generacije na generaciju;
else is going on here?
ovde dešava?
this question and answer it.
i da odgovorimo na ovo pitanje.
a cross-fostering experiment.
eksperiment unakrsnog roditeljstva.
the babies of this rat, at birth,
mlade ovog pacova po rođenju,
but mothers that will take care of them:
već majki koje će o njima da brinu:
and low-licking mothers.
majki koje retko ližu.
with the low-licking pups.
sa mladima koji retko ližu.
what gene you got from your mother.
dobili od vaše majke.
that defined this property of these rats.
određivala ovo svojstvo kod pacova.
took care of the pups.
we're in the womb of our mothers,
dok smo u utrobi naših majki,
koji geni će se manifestovati
than in the liver and the eye.
u mozgu nego u jetri i oku.
reprogramming the gene of her offspring
gen svog potomka
of biochemical events
biohemijskih događaja
of the mother, the care of the mother,
majke, briga majke,
itself for life:
može da se pripremi za život:
and snakes around,
i zmija u blizini
in an upper-class neighborhood
is behave well and proper,
lepo i pristojno
društvenu prihvaćenost?
how important that process can be
koliko je ovaj proces važan
if you are going to be born in Stockholm,
da li ćemo se roditi u Stokholmu,
and short in the winter,
a kratki tokom zime
for day and night all year round.
jednak broj sati tokom čitave godine.
on our physiology.
na našu fiziologiju.
perhaps what happens early in life,
rano u životu,
through the mother,
you're going to be living in.
društvenom svetu će da živi.
be anxious and be stressful,
bolje je biti anksiozan i pod stresom
and you have to be different.
i morate da budete drugačiji.
with a lot of light or little light?
s mnogo ili malo svetla?
with a lot of food or little food?
s mnogo ili malo hrane?
whenever you see a meal,
koji navaljuje svaki put kad vidi obrok
that you have as fat.
koja vam je dostupna.
to function in a dynamic way
staroj DNK da funkcioniše dinamično
to a poor family
u siromašnoj porodici
you're going to encounter."
svu hranu na koju naletite."
and our brain have evolved,
su evoluirali mozgovi
u Mekdonaldsu za jedan dolar.
that we had by our mothers
koje smo dobili od majki
to protect us from hunger and famine
da nas zaštiti od gladovanja i gladi
and metabolic disease.
i oboljenja metabolizma.
could be marked by our experience,
mogu da obeleže gene,
objedinjujuće objašnjenje
samo kod pacova?
test this in humans,
da testiramo na ljudima
child adversity in a random way.
dečje nedaće nasumično.
a certain property,
razvije određeno svojstvo,
this is caused by poverty
that poor people are poor
kako siromašni su siromašni
or an impoverished environment
ili u osiromašenom okruženju
that property.
into our cousins, the monkeys.
kod naših rođaka majmuna.
has been rearing monkeys
from the mother
imali su negovateljicu.
a mother; they had a nurse.
with their normal, natural mothers.
njihove normalne, prirodne majke.
they were completely different animals.
bili su potpuno različite životinje.
did not care about alcohol,
nisu marili za alkohol,
were aggressive, were stressed
su bili agresivni, pod stresom
early after birth, to see:
rano po rođenju kako bismo videli:
in the DNA of the offspring?
by which we study epigenetics.
na koji izučavamo epigenetiku.
which we call methylation marks,
ova hemijska obeležja,
that had a mother or not.
koji je imao majku ili nije.
that got more methylated are red.
koji su više metilizovani.
less methylated are green.
is not just one thing --
your world is going to look
na koji će vaš svet da izgleda
didn't see their mothers,
even at the moment of birth?
čak i u trenutku rođenja?
we took placentas of monkeys
uzeli posteljice majmuna
is that across all living beings,
je da će sva živa bića
themselves by hierarchy.
and always be a peon.
is that the monkey number one
in this methylation mapping,
a high social status
visok društveni status
that did not have a high status.
koje nisu imale visok status.
the social information,
društvene informacije,
is not bad or good,
nisu loše ili dobre,
our biology differently
našu biologiju drugačije,
or the low social status.
ili niskog društvenog statusa.
we can't administer adversity to humans.
ne možemo da ljude izlažemo nedaćama.
in Canadian history
u istoriji Kanade
because of an ice storm
zbog ledene oluje,
were, in the dead of winter in Quebec,
u sred zime u Kvebeku,
mothers during that time.
followed the children of these mothers
je pratila decu tih majki
that as the stress increased --
da dok se stres povećavao -
measures of stress:
merenja stresa:
Where did you spend your time?
Gde ste provodili vreme?
or in some posh country home?
ili u nekom otmenom seoskom domu?
to a social stress scale,
na društvenu lestvicu stresa,
becoming red as stress increases,
postaju crveni kako se stres povećava,
as stress increases,
kako se stres povećava,
of the genome in response to stress.
kao odgovor na stres.
of the history of our genes,
can we deprogram them?
možemo li da ih otprogramiramo?
can cause diseases like cancer,
mogu da uzrokuju bolesti poput raka,
and to loss of human life.
i gubitka ljudskog života.
mozak zavisnika
da uzmete kokain,
of what happened the first time,
šta se desilo prvi put,
and your life has changed.
to get used to cocaine,
when they saw the cocaine the first time
na kojoj su prvi put videli kokain
when they saw cocaine.
kad su videli kokain.
between these animals
između ovih životinja
when nothing happens,
kad se ništa ne dešava,
in a different way,
na drugačiji način,
their genome is ready
njihov genom je spreman
that either increase DNA methylation,
koji uvećavaju DNK metilaciju,
obeleživač koji smo posmatrali,
marker to look at,
if we increased methylation,
between an epigenetic drug
između epigenetskog leka
the signs of experience,
unless you have the same experience.
ukoliko ne ponovite isto iskustvo.
30 days, 60 days later,
30 dana, 60 dana kasnije,
many years of life,
mnogo godina života,
by a single epigenetic treatment.
zbog samo jednog epigenetskog tretmana.
into this movie, which is interactive.
na ovom filmu, koji je interaktivan.
of your life, with the DNA,
o svom životu, sa DNK,
i da dodate glumca.
of the deterministic nature of genetics,
prirodi genetike,
your genes look,
kako vaši geni izgledaju,
optimistic message
some of the deadly diseases
sa nekim smrtonosnim bolestima
by removing an actor
uklanjajući glumca
of two components,
od dve komponente,
of years of evolution.
is the epigenetic layer,
je epigenetski sloj,
that is interactive,
to a large extent, our destiny,
u velikoj meri, našu sudbinu,
for a long time.
to a life of responsibility.
da bude odgovoran život.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Moshe Szyf - EpigeneticistMoshe Szyf's research is focused on understanding the broad implications of epigenetic mechanisms in human behavior, health and disease.
Why you should listen
Moshe Szyf is one of the pioneers in the field of epigenetics. Szyf's lab has proposed three decades ago that DNA methylation is a prime therapeutic target in cancer and other diseases and has postulated and provided the first set of evidence that the "social environment" early in life can alter DNA methylation launching the emerging field of "social epigenetics."
Szyf received his PhD from the Hebrew University and did his postdoctoral fellowship in Genetics at Harvard Medical School, joined the department in 1989 and currently holds a James McGill Professorship and GlaxoSmithKline-CIHR Chair in Pharmacology. He is the founding co-director of the Sackler Institute for Epigenetics and Psychobiology at McGill and is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Experience-based Brain and Biological Development program.
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