Epigenetic modulations in early endothelial cells and DNA hypermethylation in human skin after sulfur mustard exposure

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 244, Issue , 2016, Pages 95-102

  Steinritz, Dirk ^a,b   Schmidt, Annette ^a,c   Balszuweit, Frank ^a   Thiermann, Horst ^a   Simons, Thilo ^a   Striepling, Enno ^d   Bölck, Birgit ^c   Bloch, Wilhelm ^c  

^a BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d BG Trauma Hospital Hamburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Endothelial cells; Epigenetics; Human exposure; Sulfur mustard

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; MUSTARD GAS; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; HISTONE;

ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA ISOLATION; SKIN; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TIME FACTOR;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; DNA METHYLATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MUSTARD GAS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SKIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84957847108     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: 18793169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2015.09.016     Document Type: Article

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