Epigenetic regulation of the neural transcriptome and alcohol interference during development

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Resendiz, Marisol ^a,b   Mason, Steven ^b   Lo, Chiao Ling ^b   Zhou, Feng C ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenomics; Gene environment interaction; Histone modification; MiRNA; Neural developmental pathway; Neural stem cells; Neuroepigenetics

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CALMODULIN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 4; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MICRORNA; NESTIN; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN BCL 2; SECURIN; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2;

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INNER CELL MASS; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEURAL STEM CELL; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL;

EID: 84906282366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00285     Document Type: Article

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