The biological basis and clinical significance of hormonal imprinting, an epigenetic process

Clinical Epigenetics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 187-196

  Csaba, György ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BENZO[A]PYRENE; BETA ENDORPHIN; COLECALCIFEROL; DEXAMETHASONE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ENDORPHIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; MIANSERIN; TERFENADINE; THYROTROPIN;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EPIGENETICS; HORMONAL IMPRINTING; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; REVIEW; STEROID BINDING; TARGET CELL; TETRAHYMENA;

EID: 84856244565     PISSN: 18687075     EISSN: 18687083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13148-011-0024-8     Document Type: Review

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