Cocoa Consumption Alters the Global DNA Methylation of Peripheral Leukocytes in Humans with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Randomized Controlled Trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Crescenti, Anna ^a   Solà, Rosa ^b   Valls, Rosa M ^b   Caimari, Antoni ^a   del Bas, Josep M ^a   Anguera, Anna ^c   Anglés, Neus ^d   Arola, Lluís ^a,b  

^a TECNIO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c SL   (Spain)

^d R+D+i Department   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE SYNTHASE REDUCTASE; PLANT EXTRACT; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CACAO; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNMT GENE; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MTHFR GENE; MTRR GENE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PREHYPERTENSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VOLUNTEER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MONONUCLEAR CELL; RISK FACTOR;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

ADULT; CACAO; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; PLANT EXTRACTS; RISK FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84879495865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065744     Document Type: Article

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