Meet the editor

Fumiaki Uchiumi, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, grew up in Japan and received his bachelor's degree (Chemistry) from Tokyo University of Science in 1987. In 1993, after obtaining his Ph.D. degree (Molecular Biology) from Tokyo University, he joined Professor S. Tanuma's Laboratory at Tokyo University of Science as an Assistant Professor. He obtained his second Ph.D. (Pharmaceutical Science) from Tokyo University

of Science in 1999. In 2000, he was promoted to the position of Lecturer at Tokyo University of Science. He then went abroad as a post-doctoral researcher of The United States-Japan Cooperative Cancer Research Program at Professor E. Fanning's Laboratory in Vanderbilt University, 2000-2001. Fumiaki Uchiumi was promoted to Associate Professor and then Full Professor at Tokyo University of Science in 2010 and 2016, respectively.

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Transcriptional Control in Human Diseases **17**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 41**

**Chapter 4 59**

Advances in Transcriptional Control **79**

**Chapter 5 81**

**Chapter 6 99**

Data Mining Approaches for Understanding of Regulation of Expression

Introductory Chapter: Gene Expression Controlling System and Its

Shaping the Transcriptional Landscape through MAPK Signaling *by Mariona Nadal-Ribelles, Carme Solé, Gerard Martínez-Cebrián,* 

Autophagy-Related Gene Expression Changes Are Found in Pancreatic

**Section 1**

Contents

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

of the Urea Cycle Genes *by Ljubica Caldovic*

*by Zhiyi Chen, Meng Du and Fei Yan*

Application to Medical Sciences *by Fumiaki Uchiumi and Masashi Asai*

*Francesc Posas and Eulàlia de Nadal*

Cancer and Neurodegenerative Diseases *by Doaa M. Ali and Martin R. Berger*

Oral Pathology: Gene Expression in Odontogenic Cysts *by Naida Hadziabdic and Amina Kurtovic-Kozaric*

Recent Advances about Local Gene Delivery by Ultrasound
