Diethylstilbestrol (DES)-stimulated hormonal toxicity is mediated by ERα alteration of target gene methylation patterns and epigenetic modifiers (DNMT3A, MBD2, and HDAC2) in the mouse seminal vesicle

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 262-268

  Li, Yin ^a   Hamilton, Katherine J ^a   Lai, Anne Y ^a   Burns, Katherine A ^a   Li, Leping ^a   Wade, Paul A ^a   Korach, Kenneth S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; LACTOFERRIN; MESSENGER RNA; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; SEMINAL VESICLE SECRETORY PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LTF GENE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEMINAL VESICLE; SVS4 GENE;

ANIMALS; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTOFERRIN; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINAL VESICLE SECRETORY PROTEINS; SEMINAL VESICLES;

EID: 84895110213     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307351     Document Type: Article

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