DNA methylation and memory formation

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1319-1323

  Day, Jeremy J ^a   Sweatt, J David ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEURONS;

EID: 77958580776     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2666     Document Type: Review

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