Differential contributions of de novo and maintenance DNA methyltransferases to object memory processing in the rat hippocampus and perirhinal cortex - a double dissociation

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 773-786

  Mitchnick, Krista A ^a   Creighton, Samantha ^a   O'Hara, Matthew ^a   Kalisch, Bettina E ^a   Winters, Boyer D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accell; Epigenetics; Object recognition; Object in place; Short interference RNA

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; MESSENGER RNA; N PHTHALOYLTRYPTOPHAN; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PHTHALIMIDE DERIVATIVE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DNMT1 GENE; DNMT3A GENE; DNMT3B GENE; DOUBLE DISSOCIATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RNA SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BRAIN CORTEX; DRUG EFFECTS; LONG EVANS RAT; LONG TERM MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; PHTHALIMIDES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 84925053102     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12819     Document Type: Article

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