Monday, March 20, 2017

Are Atherosclerotic plaques caused by a herpes virus like CMV methylating the DNA?

Marek's disease virus (the chicken's herpes virus) caused atherosclerosis in chickens
Chickens had only mild deposits on a high fat diet unless exposed to the Marek's virus then they had severe hardening of the arteries (1968)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5686036

Herpes virus causing the methylation in cancer hypothesis
http://angelabiggs.blogspot.com/2017/03/hervs-viruses-demethylation-and.html

DNA methylation and atherosclerosis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25091541
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27082829

(no carcinogen in this situation)

platelet mito methylation and CVD
https://clinicalepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13148-015-0078-0




No comments:

Post a Comment