Comorbidities, Confounders, and the White Matter Transcriptome in Chronic Alcoholism

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 994-1001

  Sutherland, Greg T ^a   Sheedy, Donna ^a   Sheahan, Pam J ^a   Kaplan, Warren ^b   Kril, Jillian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Hepatic encephalopathy; Human postmortem brain tissue; RNA quality; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL RELATED BRAIN DAMAGE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAY MATTER; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL LOSS; PATHOGENESIS; PH; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; WHITE MATTER; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOLISM; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSCRIPTOME; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84898031236     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12341     Document Type: Article

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