Formaldehyde and epigenetic alterations: MicroRNA changes in the nasal epithelium of nonhuman primates

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 339-344

  Rager, Julia E ^a   Moeller, Benjamin C ^b   Doyle Eisele, Melanie ^c   Kracko, Dean ^c   Swenberg, James A ^a,b,d   Fry, Rebecca C ^a,b,d  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c LOVELACE RESPIRATORY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Epigenetics; Formaldehyde; MicroRNA; Primate; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; BETA INTEGRIN; CASPASE 2; FORMALDEHYDE; INTEGRIN LINKED KINASE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 125B; MICRORNA 145; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 7; PROTEIN MCL 1; SPHINGOLIPID;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCOSA; POLLUTANT; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FORMALDEHYDE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MICRORNAS; NASAL MUCOSA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PRIMATES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84874606084     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205582     Document Type: Article

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