Prenatal ethanol exposure alters adult hippocampal VGLUT2 expression with concomitant changes in promoter DNA methylation, H3K4 trimethylation and miR-467b-5p levels

Epigenetics and Chromatin

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Christine R ^a   Ho, Mei Fong ^a   Vega, Michelle C Sanchez ^a   Burne, Thomas H J ^a   Chong, Suyinn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Developmental programming; DNA methylation; Ethanol exposure; Histone modifications; MicroRNA

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; HISTONE H3; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 467B 5P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONE METHYLATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84942514466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17568935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13072-015-0032-6     Document Type: Article

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