Regulation of chromatin structure in memory formation

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 336-342

  Roth, Tania L ^a   Sweatt, J David ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SIRTUIN;

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; HISTONES; MEMORY; METHYLATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 68649088591     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2009.05.011     Document Type: Review

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