Dynamic changes in DNA methylation of stress-associated genes (OXTR, BDNF) after acute psychosocial stress

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Unternaehrer, E ^a   Luers, P ^b   Mill, J ^c   Dempster, E ^c   Meyer, A H ^a   Staehli, S ^a,b   Lieb, R ^a   Hellhammer, D H ^b   Meinlschmidt, G ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

acute psychosocial stress; brain derived neurotrophic factor gene (BDNF ); dynamic DNA methylation; epigenetics; oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR)

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; SOCIAL STRESS; BLOOD; CPG ISLAND; EPIGENETICS; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CPG ISLANDS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84874133001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2012.77     Document Type: Article

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