Epigenetic regulation of self-renewal and fate determination in neural stem cells

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 529-539

  Mohamed Ariff, Iqbal ^a   Mitra, Arinjay ^a   Basu, Anirban ^a  

^a NATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Chromatin remodeling; Development; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Histone modification; Neural stem cell; Noncoding RNA; Polycomb gene group

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GENOMIC DNA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 1; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 3; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 5; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 7; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MICRORNA; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; RE1 SILENCING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; STAT3 PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASTROCYTE; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; NEURAL STEM CELLS;

EID: 84855867526     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22804     Document Type: Review

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