Maternal undernutrition programs tissue-specific epigenetic changes in the glucocorticoid receptor in adult offspring

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4560-4569

  Begum, Ghazala ^a   Davies, Alison ^a   Stevens, Adam ^a   Oliver, Mark ^b,c   Jaquiery, Anne ^b,c   Challis, John ^d   Harding, Jane ^b   Bloomfield, Frank ^b,c   White, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HISTONE H3; LYSINE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENERGY BALANCE; EPIGENETICS; EXON; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METHYLATION; NERVE CELL; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; VETERINARY;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

EID: 84888239814     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1693     Document Type: Article

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