Epigenetic mechanisms in experience-driven memory formation and behavior

Epigenomics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 649-664

  Puckett, Rosemary E ^a   Lubin, Farah D ^a  

^a Civitan International Research Center Evelyn F McKnight Brain Institute University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

acetylation; amygdala; behavior; DNA methylation; epigenetics; hippocampus; histone; histone deacetylases; histone methylation; long term memory; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BUTYRIC ACID; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; HISTONE H3; HISTONE H4; I KAPPA B KINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VORINOSTAT; WT 161;

BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACETYLATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTONES; HUMANS; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MENTAL DISORDERS; METHYLATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; SYNAPSES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80054720888     PISSN: 17501911     EISSN: 1750192X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/epi.11.86     Document Type: Review

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