Impact of Cadmium Exposure during Pregnancy on Hepatic Glucocorticoid Receptor Methylation and Expression in Rat Fetus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Castillo, Paula ^a   Ibáñez, Freddy ^a   Guajardo, Angélica ^a   Llanos, Miguel N ^a   Ronco, Ana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A OXIDASE; CADMIUM; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP); UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CPG ISLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXON; FEMALE; FETUS; LIPID METABOLISM; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PYROSEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CADMIUM; CPG ISLANDS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LIVER; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; METHYLATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

RATTUS;

EID: 84866052132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044139     Document Type: Article

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