Stress and the dynamic genome: Steroids, epigenetics, and the transposome

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 6828-6833

  Hunter, Richard G ^a,b   Gagnidze, Khatuna ^a   McEwen, Bruce S ^a   Pfaff, Donald W ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Genomic stress response; Hippocampus; Histone marks; Retrotransposon

Indexed keywords

DNA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HISTONE H3; RNA; STEROID; STEROID RECEPTOR; RETROPOSON;

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CHRONIC STRESS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DENDRITE; DNA METHYLATION; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONE METHYLATION; HUMAN; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETROPOSON; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; STRESS; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RETROELEMENTS; STEROIDS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84930673208     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1411260111     Document Type: Article

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