Prenatal Exposure to apoE deficiency and postnatal hypercholesterolemia are associated with altered cell-specific lysine methyltransferase and histone methylation patterns in the vasculature

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 542-548

  Alkemade, Fanneke E ^a   Van Vliet, Patrick ^a   Henneman, Peter ^a   Van Dijk, Ko Willems ^a   Hierck, Beerend P ^a   Van Munsteren, J Conny ^a   Scheerman, Joyce A ^a   Goeman, Jelle J ^a   Havekes, Louis M ^a,b   Gittenberger de Groot, Adriana C ^a   Van Den Elsen, Peter J ^a,c   DeRuiter, Marco C ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE 3; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 76149146414     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: 15252191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2010.090031     Document Type: Article

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