Vascular transcriptional alterations produced by juvenile obesity in Ossabaw swine

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 434-446

  Padilla, Jaume ^a   Jenkins, Nathan T ^a   Lee, Sewon ^b   Zhang, Hanrui ^b   Cui, Jian ^b   Zuidema, Mozow Y ^c   Zhang, Cuihua ^b   Hill, Michael A ^b,c   Perfield II, James W ^a,c   Ibdah, Jamal A ^c,d   Booth, Frank W ^a,b,c   Davis, J Wade ^a   Laughlin, M Harold ^a,b,c   Rector, R Scott ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

^d The Harry S Truman Veteran's Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood obesity; Endothelial function; Gene expression; Overnutrition

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; FRUCTOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CHOLESTEROL DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SWINE; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CHILDHOOD OBESITY; ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; OVERNUTRITION;

ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CORONARY VESSELS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; NF-KAPPA B; OBESITY; SCAVENGER RECEPTORS, CLASS E; SWINE; VASODILATION;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84878550837     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00038.2013     Document Type: Article

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