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Vaters Ernährung beeinflusst seine Spermienqualität

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Our daily food, especially vitamins of the B-family and secondary plant metabolites, have the potential to modify epigenetic signatures, which are located on both our DNA and associated histones. These bioactive substances play an important role in activating and silencing gene expression and, therefore, represent a bridge between nutrition and health. Modified epigenetic signatures in our germ cells, e. g. caused by obesity, may even be inherited to our children and grandchildren and have the potential to affect health in their later life.

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  1. Klinik für Urologie, Kinderurologie und Andrologie Molekulare Andrologie, Universität Gießen, Gießen, Deutschland

    Klaus Steger

  2. Klinik für Urologie, Kinderurologie und Andrologie, Molekulare, Andrologie, Biomedizinisches Forschungszentrum Seltersberg (BFS), Schubertstraße 81, D-35392, Gießen, Deutschland

    Klaus Steger

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Klaus Steger Jahrgang 1963. Biologie- und Chemiestudium in Regensburg. 1994 Promotion. 1995–1999 Postdoc am Anatomischen Institut der Universität Halle. 1999–2004 Arbeitsgruppenleiter am Veterinäranatomischen Institut der Universität Gießen. 2004–2008 Laborleiter der Urologischen Klinik Gießen. 2008–2014 Leiter der Klinischen Forschergruppe KFO181 (Mechanisms of Male Factor Infertility). Seit 2010 Professor für Molekulare Andrologie der Urologischen Klinik der Universität Gießen.

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Steger, K. Vaters Ernährung beeinflusst seine Spermienqualität. Biospektrum 25, 142–145 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-019-1021-2

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