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Early exposure to a systemic stressor confers protection later in life

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Oleson et al. tackle the enduring question of the extent to which transient events during development shape our outcomes by studying the effects of early-life exposure to oxidative stress. They find that a cascade of changes initiated by the epigenetic-modifier COMPASS complex manifests in rearrangements in lipid metabolism in adulthood, which confers broad protection against amyloid-induced proteotoxicity.

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Fig. 1: Early-life exposure to ROS protects from amyloid-induced toxicity later in life.

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S.S. is supported in part by research grants to S.S. from the NIH/NIDDK (R01 DK124706) and NIH/NIA (R01 AG056648).

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  2. Dorris Neuroscience Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

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