Epigenetic upregulation of large-conductance Ca2+- Activated K+ channel expression in uterine vascular adaptation to pregnancy

Hypertension

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 610-618

  Chen, Man ^a   Dasgupta, Chiranjib ^a   Xiong, Fuxia ^a   Zhang, Lubo ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bkca channel; Epigenomics; Hypoxia; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; EXPERIMENTAL SHEEP; FEMALE; HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN METHYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UPREGULATION; UTERINE ARTERY;

BKCA CHANNEL; EPIGENOMICS; HYPOXIA; PREGNANCY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; LARGE-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL BETA SUBUNITS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY-SPECIFIC BETA 1-GLYCOPROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; SHEEP; UP-REGULATION; UTERINE ARTERY;

EID: 84907599082     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.114.03407     Document Type: Article

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