Epigenetic control of vasopressin expression is maintained by steroid hormones in the adult male rat brain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4242-4247

  Auger, Catherine J ^a   Coss, Dylan ^a   Auger, Anthony P ^a   Forbes Lorman, Robin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; VASOPRESSIN;

ANDROGEN THERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; HORMONES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORCHIECTOMY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROIDS;

RATTUS;

EID: 79952746951     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100314108     Document Type: Article

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