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ArticleGenes and environment : the official journal of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society2020

Nicotine attenuates global genomic DNA methylation by influencing DNMTs gene expression in human endometrial stromal cells.

Fatemeh Zal, Amir Yarahmadi, Hamidreza Totonchi, Mahdi Barazesh, Mostafa Moradi Sarabi

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Article in Genes and environment : the official journal of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Fatemeh Zal1Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Amir Yarahmadi1Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Hamidreza Totonchi1Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Mahdi Barazesh3Biotechnology Department, School of advanced medical sciences and technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Mostafa Moradi Sarabi4Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, School of Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, 381251698 Iran.ORCID 0000-0003-3052-6858
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences · IRLorestan University of Medical Sciences · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThere is increasing evidence indicating an incidence of infertility and also the risk of endometrial cancers among smokers. However, the mechanism underlying nicotine adverse effect on female reproduction remains unclear. Growing evidence has suggested that environmental exposures such as nicotine could modulate the epigenome. No study has yet been published to evaluate the direct effect of nicotine on the epigenome profiling of human endometrial stromal cells (HESC). Herein, we decided to examine the direct effects of nicotine on global genomic DNA methylation status and DNA methyl- transferases (DNMTs) gene expression in HESC. HESC were treated with different doses of nicotine (0 or control, 10

resultsNicotine treatments reduced the average level of DNMTs gene expression by 90, 79, and 73.4% in 10

conclusionAn interesting possibility raised by the current study is that the reduced genomic global DNA methylation level in HESC may be partly due to the suppression of DNMTs gene expression caused by nicotine in these cells. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT:

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DNMTs gene expressionEndometrial cancerGlobal DNA methylationNicotine

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