Dnmt3a in the medial prefrontal cortex regulates anxiety-like behavior in adult mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 730-740

  Elliott, Evan ^a,b   Manashirov, Sharon ^a,c   Zwang, Raaya ^a   Gil, Shosh ^a   Tsoory, Michael ^a   Shemesh, Yair ^a,c   Chen, Alon ^a,c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; DNA methyltransferases; Stress

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; MESSENGER RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC SOCIAL DEFEAT STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; DNA METHYLATION; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENTIVIRINAE; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIAL STRESS; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; WESTERN BLOTTING; AGE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; COMPLICATION; ETIOLOGY; GENE SILENCING; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84955157053     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0971-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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