Arsenic eaters and altitude sickness: An epigenetic strategy for improving fitness in a hostile environment?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 677-

  Tremolizzo, Lucio ^a   Riva, Michele A ^a   Ferrarese, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ARSENIC; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARSENIC POISONING; BLOOD OXYGEN TENSION; CANCER RISK; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; LETTER; PROMOTER REGION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ARSENICALS; AUSTRIA; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; OXIDES;

EID: 77958454882     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.07.032     Document Type: Letter

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