Environmental enrichment reverses histone methylation changes in the aged hippocampus and restores age-related memory deficits

Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 298-313

  Morse, Sarah J ^a   Butler, Anderson A ^a   Davis, Robin L ^a   Soller, Ian J ^a   Lubin, Farah D ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin remodeling; Demethylases; Epigenetics; Gene expression; Hippocampus; Histone acetylation; Memory; Methyltransferases

Indexed keywords

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EID: 84930947913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20797737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/biology4020298     Document Type: Article

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