Effects of environmental noise exposure on DNA methylation in the brain and metabolic health

Environmental Research

Volumn 153, Issue , 2017, Pages 73-82

  Guo, Liqiong ^a   Li, Peng hui ^b   Li, Hua ^c   Colicino, Elena ^a   Colicino, Silvia ^d   Wen, Yi ^e   Zhang, Ruiping ^e   Feng, Xiaotian ^f   Barrow, Timothy M ^g   Cayir, Akin ^a   Baccarelli, Andrea A ^a   Byun, Hyang Min ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Department of Radiology   (China)

^f CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; DNA methylation; Environmental noise stress; Epigenetics

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; MELANOCORTIN 2 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; SYNUCLEIN; SYNUCLEIN ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; SNCA PROTEIN, RAT;

BRAIN; DNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORMONE; METABOLISM; METHYLATION; NOISE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RODENT;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSED BLOOD PRESSURE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; METABOLISM; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MALE; NOISE; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 2; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 84999635679     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.11.017     Document Type: Article

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