Overlapping signatures of chronic pain in the DNA methylation landscape of prefrontal cortex and peripheral T cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Massart, Renaud ^a   Dymov, Sergiy ^a   Millecamps, Magali ^b   Suderman, Matthew ^a   Gregoire, Stephanie ^b   Koenigs, Kevin ^a   Alvarado, Sebastian ^a   Tajerian, Maral ^b   Stone, Laura S ^b   Szyf, Moshe ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL; CHRONIC PAIN; DNA METHYLATION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; CHRONIC PAIN; DNA METHYLATION; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84956520928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19615     Document Type: Article

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