Low-dose carbon-based nanoparticle-induced effects in A549 lung cells determined by biospectroscopy are associated with increases in genomic methylation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Li, Junyi ^a   Tian, Meiping ^b   Cui, Li ^b   Dwyer, John ^c   Fullwood, Nigel J ^c   Shen, Heqing ^b   Martin, Francis L ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NANOPARTICLE;

A-549 CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROCEDURES; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROSCOPY; TOXICOLOGY;

A549 CELLS; CARBON; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOPARTICLES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 84957551154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20207     Document Type: Article

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