Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation boosts synaptic plasticity and memory in mice via epigenetic regulation of Bdnf expression

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Podda, Maria Vittoria ^a   Cocco, Sara ^a   Mastrodonato, Alessia ^a   Fusco, Salvatore ^a   Leone, Lucia ^a   Barbati, Saviana Antonella ^a   Colussi, Claudia ^a,b   Ripoli, Cristian ^a   Grassi, Claudio ^a,c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RECEPTOR, TRKB; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84959378529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep22180     Document Type: Article

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