17β-estradiol regulates histone alterations associated with memory consolidation and increases Bdnf promoter acetylation in middle-aged female mice

Learning and Memory

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 457-467

  Fortress, Ashley M ^a   Kim, Jaekyoon ^a   Poole, Rachel L ^b   Gould, Thomas J ^b   Frick, Karyn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; HISTONE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 3;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; RECOGNITION;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 2; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; HISTONES; MEMORY; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84907750752     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.034033.113     Document Type: Article

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