Differential endothelial cell gene expression by African Americans versus Caucasian Americans: A possible contribution to health disparity in vascular disease and cancer

BMC Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wei, P ^a,b,c   Milbauer, L C ^a   Enenstein, J ^a   Nguyen, J ^a   Pan, W ^b   Hebbel, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCRINE MOTILITY FACTOR RECEPTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 6; CARBOXYLESTERASE; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN RELATED CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1; CCL1 CHEMOKINE; CD164 ANTIGEN; CD1D ANTIGEN; CHLORDANE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1A; CYSTEINE RICH PROTEIN 61; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; CYTOCHROME P450 1B1; DEOXYCYTIDINE PHOSPHATE DEAMINASE; DYNAMIN II; EOTAXIN 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 3; INITIATION FACTOR 4B; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 3; MITOFUSIN 1; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 RECEPTOR; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SOS PROTEIN; SPECTRIN; SYNAPTOBREVIN 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR JUNB; UNINDEXED DRUG; KLF2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOSERINE PHOSPHATASE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DONOR; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETICS; HEALTH DISPARITY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHESIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; STROKE; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; ADULT; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYMOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VASCULAR DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651111054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-9-2     Document Type: Article

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