Differential effects of nutritional folic acid deficiency and moderate hyperhomocysteinemia on aortic plaque formation and genome-wide DNA methylation in vascular tissue from ApoE-/-mice

Clinical Epigenetics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 361-368

  McNeil, Chris J ^a   Beattie, John H ^a   Gordon, M J ^a   Pirie, Lynn P ^a   Duthie, Susan J ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aortic plaques; Atherosclerosis; Folic acid and B vitamin deficiency in ApoE null mice; Genome wide DNA methylation; Hyperhomocysteinemia; Vascular tissue

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLDEOXYCYTIDINE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CYANOCOBALAMIN; GENOMIC DNA; HOMOCYSTEINE; LARD; PYRIDOXINE; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA METHYLATION; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR TISSUE; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84856253899     PISSN: 18687075     EISSN: 18687083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13148-011-0022-x     Document Type: Article

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