Paternal sepsis induces alterations of the sperm methylome and dampens offspring immune responses—an animal study

Abstract Background Sepsis represents the utmost severe consequence of infection, involving a dysregulated and self-damaging immune response of the host. While different environmental exposures like chronic stress or malnutrition have been well described to reprogram the germline and subsequently of...

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Main Authors: Katharina Bomans, Judith Schenz, Sandra Tamulyte, Dominik Schaack, Markus Alexander Weigand, Florian Uhle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:Clinical Epigenetics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13148-018-0522-z