Epigenetic treatments for cognitive impairments

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 247-260

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

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

development; drug discovery; epigenetics; learning and memory; neurodegeneration; neuroprotection

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BUTYRIC ACID; CLOZAPINE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; HISTONE DEMETHYLASE; HUNTINGTIN; MICRORNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; N PHTHALOYLTRYPTOPHAN; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR RELATED FACTOR 1; PRION PROTEIN; REELIN; RESVERATROL; SIRTUIN 1; SULPIRIDE; TRICHOSTATIN A; VALPROIC ACID; VORINOSTAT; ZEBULARINE;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BINDING AFFINITY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMETHYLATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; FEAR; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH DISORDER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; HISTONE PHOSPHORYLATION; HISTONE UBIQUITINATION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RETT SYNDROME; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TAUOPATHY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

COGNITION DISORDERS; DRUG DISCOVERY; EPIGENOMICS; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PHARMACOGENETICS; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY;

EID: 84856111959     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.85     Document Type: Review

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