Peripheral Nerve Injury Is Associated with Chronic, Reversible Changes in Global DNA Methylation in the Mouse Prefrontal Cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tajerian, Maral ^a,b   Alvarado, Sebastian ^b   Millecamps, Magali ^a,b   Vachon, Pascal ^c   Crosby, Cecilia ^b   Bushnell, M Catherine ^a,b   Szyf, Moshe ^b   Stone, Laura S ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GRAY MATTER; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CHRONIC PAIN; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MALE; MICE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 84873828211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055259     Document Type: Article

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