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Epigenetic codes in cognition and behaviour.
Behavioural brain research - 1 Sept 2008
Gräff Johannes, Mansuy Isabelle M
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The epigenetic marking of chromatin provides a ubiquitous means for cells to shape and maintain their identity, and to react to environmental stimuli via specific remodeling. Such an epigenetic code of the core components of chromatin, DNA and histone proteins, can thus be stable but is also highly dynamic. In the nervous system, epigenetic codes are critical for basic cellular processes such as synaptic...
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