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Cellular, molecular, and epigenetic mechanisms in non-associative conditioning: implications for pain and memory

Elizabeth J Rahn1, Mikael C Guzman-Karlsson, J David Sweatt

  • 1Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
|June 26, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
4EBP5-HT5-aza5-azacytidineAplysiaBDNFC/EBPCAMKIICBSCCAAT enhancer binding proteinCCICFACOX-2CPBCPEBCRECREBCREB-binding proteinCa(2+)Central sensitizationDHPGDNA methyltransferaseDNA methyltransferase inhibitorDNMTDNMTiDRGEIF4EEIF4E binding proteinERKEpigeneticFCSFK 506 binding proteinFKBP5FMRFaHATHDACHDACiHistoneIL-6IP3ITFLELGLTDLTFLTHLTPLTSLeft E clusterMAPKMeCP2MethylationNF-κBNONRMNRSENRSFPARPPGE2PKAPKCPKGPKMPSNLPTMPTSDPi-RNAsPiwi-interacting RNAsPre-Met-ARg-Phe-NH(2)S-adenosyl-methionineS6 kinaseS6KSAHASAMSGK1SGWRSNISNLSTFSULT1A1SensitizationTORTSATrkBUCHVCZIPbrain derived neurotrophic factorcAMPcAMP response elementcAMP response element binding proteincAMP-dependent protein kinasecGMPcalciumcalmodulin-dependent protein kinase IIchronic constriction injurycomplete Freund’s adjuvantcyclic adenosine monophosphatecyclic guanosine monophosphatecyclooxygenase-2cystathionine-β-synthasecytoplasmic polyadenylation element binding proteindihydroxyphenylglycinedorsal root ganglioneEF2eukaryotic elongation factor 2eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4Eextracellular receptor kinasefast conducting systemhistone acetyltransferasehistone acetyltransferase E1A binding protein p300histone deacetylasehistone deacetylase inhibitorinositol 1,4,5-trisphosphateinterleukin 6intermediate-term facilitationlateral giant neuronlong-term depressionlong-term facilitationlong-term hyperexcitabilitylong-term potentiationlong-term sensitizationmethyl-CpG-binding protein 2mitogen activated protein kinaseneuron-restrictive silence factorneuron-restrictive silencer elementnitric oxidenuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B cellsnucleus raphe magnusp300partial sciatic nerve ligationpoly-(ADP-ribose) polymerasepost-translational modificationspost-traumatic stress disorderprostaglandin E2protein kinase Cprotein kinase Gprotein kinase Mserotoninserum- and glucocorticoid-inducible kinaseshort-term facilitationsiphon-gill withdrawal reflexspared nerve injuryspinal nerve ligationsuberoylanilide hydroxamic acidsulfotransferase family 1A, phenol-preferring, member 1target of rapamycintrichostatin Atyrosine kinase receptor Bubiquitin C-terminal hydrolaseventrocaudal clusterszeta inhibitory peptide

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