Diet-induced Obesity Disturbs Epigenetic Responses to Ionizing Radiation in Mouse

ABSTRACT: Both exposure to ionizing radiation and obesity have been associated with various pathologies including cancer. There is a crucial need in better understanding the interactions between ionizing radiation effects (especially at low doses) and other risk factors, such as obesity. In order to evaluate radiation responses in obese animals, C3H and C57BL/6 mice fed a control low fat or a high fat (HF) diet were exposed to fractionated doses of X-rays (4×0.75 Gy). Bone marrow micronucleus assays did not suggest a modulation of radiation-induced genotoxicity by HF diet. Both HF diet and irradiation resulted in increased oxidative damage, H2AX levels and proliferation in C57BL/6 mouse liver. Using methylation-specific PCR, we observed that the promoters of p16 and Dapk genes were methylated in the

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Guillaume Vares 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-47956 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress