Molecular pathways underpinning ethanol-induced neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Goldowitz, Dan ^a   Lussier, Alexandre A ^a   Boyle, Julia K ^a   Wong, Kaelan ^a   Lattimer, Scott L ^b   Dubose, Candis ^b   Lu, Lu ^b   Kobor, Michael S ^a,c   Hamre, Kristin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cerebral cortex; Chromosome modifications; Hippocampus; Histone marks; QTL

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CASPASE 3; HISTONE H2AX;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN GEL BLOT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

EID: 84906269602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00203     Document Type: Article

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