Lasting Epigenetic Influence of Early-Life Adversity on the BDNF Gene

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 760-769

  Roth, Tania L ^a   Lubin, Farah D ^a   Funk, Adam J ^b   Sweatt, J David ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; child abuse; DNA methylation; epigenetics; hippocampus; prefrontal cortex; Reelin; transgenerational inheritance

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BDNF GENE; CHILD ABUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INHERITANCE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYTIDINE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 63449085750     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.11.028     Document Type: Article

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