Yogic meditation reverses NF-κB and IRF-related transcriptome dynamics in leukocytes of family dementia caregivers in a randomized controlled trial

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 348-355

  Black, David S ^a   Cole, Steve W ^a,b,c   Irwin, Michael R ^a,b   Breen, Elizabeth ^a,b   St Cyr, Natalie M ^b   Nazarian, Nora ^b   Khalsa, Dharma S ^b   Lavretsky, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Dementia caregiver; Gene expression profiling; Genomics; Kirtan Kriya; Meditation; Microarray; NF B; Relaxation; Stress; Yoga

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOINFORMATICS; BODY MASS; CAREGIVER; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MEDITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASMACYTOID DENDRITIC CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; UPREGULATION; YOGA;

CAREGIVERS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTORS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; NF-KAPPA B; TRANSCRIPTOME; YOGA;

EID: 84875277860     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.06.011     Document Type: Article

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