Neuronal DNA Methylation Profiling of Blast-Related Traumatic Brain Injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 1200-1209

  Haghighi, Fatemeh ^a,b   Ge, Yongchao ^b   Chen, Sean ^b   Xin, Yurong ^b   Umali, Michelle U ^b   De Gasperi, Rita ^a,b   Gama Sosa, Miguel A ^a,b   Ahlers, Stephen T ^c   Elder, Gregory A ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

blast overpressure; DNA methylation; epigenetic; sleep disturbance; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ARALKYLAMINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYTOSINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; MELATONIN; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SEROTONIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; AANAT PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLAST-INDUCED BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL DEATH; CELL SELECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EXPANDED REDUCED REPRESENTATION BISULFITE SEQUENCING; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; GLIA CELL; HYPERBARISM; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SLEEP DISORDER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ANIMAL; BLAST INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; DISEASE MODEL; FRONTAL LOBE; GENETICS; GLIA; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ARYLALKYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84938350515     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2014.3640     Document Type: Article

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