Effects of nickel on DNA methyltransferase activity and genomic DNA methylation levels

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 415, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 213-218

  Lee, Yong Woo ^a   Broday, Limor ^a   Costa, Max ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinogenesis; Epigenetic; Nickel

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; NICKEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHINESE HAMSTER; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; DNA METHYLATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CRICETINAE; DNA METHYLATION; FIBROBLASTS; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; GENOME; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NICKEL; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC);

EID: 0032584629     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1383-5718(98)00078-3     Document Type: Article

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