Epigenetic modulation of homer1a transcription regulation in amygdala and hippocampus with pavlovian fear conditioning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4651-4659

  Mahan, Amy L ^a   Mou, Liping ^a,b   Shah, Nirali ^a   Hu, Jia Hua ^c   Worley, Paul F ^c   Ressler, Kerry J ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN HOMER 1A;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAVLOVIAN FEAR CONDITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CARRIER PROTEINS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84859044408     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3308-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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