Epigenetic changes in the hypothalamic proopiomelanocortin and glucocorticoid receptor genes in the ovine fetus after periconceptional undernutrition

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3652-3664

  Stevens, Adam ^b   Begum, Ghazala ^a   Cook, Alice ^b   Connor, Kristin ^c,d   Rumball, Christopher ^d   Oliver, Mark ^d   Challis, John ^c   Bloomfield, Frank ^d   White, Anne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H3K9; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; AMPLICON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECEPTOR GENE; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FETAL NUTRITION DISORDERS; FETUS; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HISTONES; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SHEEP;

EID: 77954890700     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2010-0094     Document Type: Article

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