Multigenerational effects of fetal-neonatal iron deficiency on hippocampal BDNF signaling

Physiological Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Blegen, Mariah B ^a   Kennedy, Bruce C ^b   Thibert, Katie A ^a   Gewirtz, Jonathan C ^b   Tran, Phu V ^a   Georgieff, Michael K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Epigenetics; JARID; Nutrition; Rat

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; HISTONE DEMETHYLASE; HISTONE H3; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; SYNAPTOTAGMIN I;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FETAL NEONATAL IRON DEFICIENCY; FETUS DISEASE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; IRON DEFICIENCY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; UPREGULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906741141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/phy2.96     Document Type: Article

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