Cognitive neuroepigenetics: A role for epigenetic mechanisms in learning and memory

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-12

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

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Learning; Memory

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CYTOSINE; DNA; PROTEIN KINASE C;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITIVE NEUROEPIGENETICS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; LEARNING; MEMORY;

EID: 79953163655     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.12.008     Document Type: Article

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