Tuning the orchestra: Transcriptional pathways controlling axon regeneration

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JANUARY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Tedeschi, Andrea ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal regeneration; Epigenetic changes; Network; Transcription factors and co activators; Transcriptional pathways

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 3; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE PCAF; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; JANUS KINASE; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR 4; PROTEIN C JUN; PROTEIN P53; SMAD1 PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL SURVIVAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84856808106     PISSN: 16625099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2011.00060     Document Type: Review

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