Epigenetic mechanisms of depression and antidepressant action

Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 59-87

  Vialou, Vincent ^a   Feng, Jian ^a   Robison, Alfred J ^a   Nestler, Eric J ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; early life stress; histone modification; limbic brain; noncoding RNA; transgenerational

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; IMIPRAMINE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EPIGENETICS; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS;

EID: 84872241553     PISSN: 03621642     EISSN: 15454304     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-010611-134540     Document Type: Review

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