DNA hypomethylation and methyltransferase expression in atherosclerotic lesions

Vascular Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-11

  Hiltunen, Mikko O ^a   Turunen, Mikko P ^a   Häkkinen, Tomi P ^a   Rutanen, Juha ^a   Hedman, Marja ^a   Mäkinen, Kimmo ^a   Turunen, Anna Mari ^a   Aalto Setälä, Katriina ^a   Ylä Herttuala, Seppo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Atherogenesis; Cell culture; DNA methylation; Gene expression

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CANCER CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MOUSE; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SOLID TUMOR; TUMOR GROWTH; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL MOTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; INTIMA; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMAL; AORTA; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CELL MOVEMENT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MIDDLE AGE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-SIS; RABBITS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUNICA INTIMA; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035989528     PISSN: 1358863X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1358863x02vm418oa     Document Type: Article

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