Genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation and gene expression patterns in purified, uncultured human liver cells and activated hepatic stellate cells

Oncotarget

Volumn 6, Issue 29, 2015, Pages 26729-26745

  El Taghdouini, Adil ^a   Sørensen, Anita L ^b   Reiner, Andrew H ^b   Coll, Mar ^c   Verhulst, Stefaan ^a   Mannaerts, Inge ^a   Øie, Cristina I ^d   Smedsrød, Bård ^d   Najimi, Mustapha ^e   Sokal, Etienne ^e   Luttun, Aernout ^f   Sancho Bru, Pau ^c   Collas, Philippe ^b   van Grunsven, Leo A ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Hepatic stellate cells; Liver fibrosis; Pathology section

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHILD; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER SINUSOIDAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PURIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; STELLATE CELL; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEPATIC STELLATE CELL; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHILD; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84944472677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.4925     Document Type: Article

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