Reduced methylation of the thromboxane synthase gene is correlated with its increased vascular expression in preeclampsia

Hypertension

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1249-1255

  Mousa, Ahmad A ^a,b   Strauss III, Jerome F ^a   Walsh, Scott W ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Omental blood vessels; Preeclampsia; Thromboxane A 2; Thromboxane synthase

Indexed keywords

THROMBOXANE A2; THROMBOXANE SYNTHASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; NEUTROPHIL; OMENTUM; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ADULT; ARTERIES; BLOOD VESSELS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HL-60 CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NEUTROPHIL INFILTRATION; OMENTUM; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOXANE-A SYNTHASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861527927     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.188730     Document Type: Article

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