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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Nutr Food Res. 2015 Mar 17;59(5):991–999. doi: 10.1002/mnfr.201400761

Figure 3. Zinc deficiency resulted in decreased IL6 promoter methylation.

Figure 3

(A) IL1β and (B) IL6 proinflammatory cytokines production in ZA THP1 cells left untreated, or treated with 5 µM AZA for 48h prior to LPS stimulation (100 ng/ml) for 24h (n=3 per group). Data represent mean ± SEM. *P<0.01 vs. ZA. Results are representative of two independent experiments. (C) IL6 promoter methylation in ZA, ZD, and AZA-treated THP1 cells (n=5–9 per group). Data represent mean promoter methylation fold-change ± SEM vs. ZA. Means without a common letter differ, P < 0.05. (D) Global DNA methylation in ZA, ZD (3 wk), and AZA-treated THP1 cells (n=4 per group). Data represents mean relative fluorescence units (RFU) ± SEM per 200 ng DNA. Means without a common letter differ, P < 0.05. Results are representative of two independent experiments.

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