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Characterization of the action of antipsychotic subtypes on valproate-induced chromatin remodeling.
Trends in pharmacological sciences - 1 Feb 2009
Guidotti Alessandro, Dong Erbo, Kundakovic Marija, Satta Rosalba, Grayson Dennis R, Costa Erminio
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Recent advances in schizophrenia (SZ) research indicate that the telencephalic gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic neurotransmission deficit associated with this psychiatric disorder probably is mediated by the hypermethylation of the glutamic acid decarboxylase 67 (GAD(67)), reelin and other GABAergic promoters. A pharmacological strategy to reduce the hypermethylation of GABAergic promoters is to induce a...
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