Epigenetic and transgenerational reprogramming of brain development

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 332-344

  Bale, Tracy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BODY COMPOSITION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONIC STRESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL STRESS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURODEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMMING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; OBESITY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PATERNITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; BRAIN; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEUROGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 84929949604     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3818     Document Type: Review

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