The role of epigenetic-related codes in neurocomputation: Dynamic hardware in the brain

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1652, 2014, Pages

  Edelstein, Lawrence ^a   Smythies, John ^b,c  

^a Medimark Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Exosomes; microRNAs; Neural modality; Neurocomputation; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DATA SET; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PLASTICITY; RNA; SURVIVAL;

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MICRORNA; OTX2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX;

BRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; EXOSOME; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SECOND MESSENGER; SYNAPSE; TRENDS;

BRAIN; CELL COMMUNICATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXOSOMES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MICRORNAS; NEUROLOGY; NEURONS; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84906096938     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0519     Document Type: Review

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