Age-related changes in Egr1 transcription and DNA methylation within the hippocampus

Hippocampus

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1008-1020

  Penner, M R ^a   Parrish, R R ^b   Hoang, L T ^a   Roth, T L ^c   Lubin, F D ^b   Barnes, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; epigenetic modulation; memory; transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EGR 1;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE AGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DNA METHYLATION; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84978822613     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22583     Document Type: Article

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