Long-lasting regulation of hippocampal Bdnf gene transcription after contextual fear conditioning

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 651-659

  Mizuno, K ^a   Dempster, E ^b   Mill, J ^b   Giese, K P ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contextual fear memory; DNA methylation; Gene expression; Hippocampus; Nr4a1; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NUR77;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; FEAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DNA METHYLATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84864127740     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2012.00805.x     Document Type: Article

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