High folate gestational and post-weaning diets alter hypothalamic feeding pathways by DNA methylation in Wistar rat offspring

Epigenetics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 710-719

  Cho, Clara E ^a   Sánchez Hernández, Diana ^a   Reza López, Sandra A ^a   Huot, Pedro S P ^a   Kim, Young In ^a,b,c,d   Anderson, G Harvey ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Folate; Gene expression; Gestation; Glucose response; Hypothalamus; Obesity; Post weaning

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; GLUCOSE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WEANING;

RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84879656528     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.24948     Document Type: Article

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