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Ischemia- reperfusion Injury and Its Influence on the Epigenetic Modification of the Donor Kidney Genome
15 Dec 2008
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BACKGROUND: In clinical transplantation, ischemia-reperfusion injury (I/RI) causes damage to DNA. We hypothesize that one form of damage is the demethylation of methylated cytosines in the donor genome caused by the oxidative environment created first by ischemia, and subsequently by reperfusion on transplantation. This study contributes to the understanding of how the short-lived and transient ischemic insult...
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