Early-Life stress reduces dna methylation of the pomc gene in male mice

Endocrinology

Volumn 155, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1751-1762

  Wu, Yonghe ^a   Patchev, Alexandre V ^a   Daniel, Guillaume ^a   Almeida, Osborne F X ^a   Spengler, Dietmar ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; MESSENGER RNA; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRESSOR GENE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; DOWN-REGULATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; KINETICS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MICE; NEUROENDOCRINE CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PITUITARY GLAND; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899441260     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1868     Document Type: Article

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