DNA Methylation in Memory Formation: Emerging Insights

Neuroscientist

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 475-489

  Heyward, Frankie D ^a   Sweatt, J David ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA demethylation; DNA methylation; epigenetics; memory; synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 1; GROWTH ARREST AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 45B; PROTEIN; REELIN; TET1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MEMORY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS;

EID: 84940994066     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: 10894098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073858415579635     Document Type: Review

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