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Role of Complex Epigenetic Switching in Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Upregulation in the Prefrontal Cortex of Suicide Subjects.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 Mar 2018
Wang Qingzhong, Roy Bhaskar, Turecki Gustavo, Shelton Richard C, Dwivedi Yogesh
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OBJECTIVE: Proinflammatory cytokines have recently received considerable attention for their role in suicidal behavior; however, how the expression of cytokine genes is regulated is not clearly known. The authors examined underlying mechanisms of critical cytokine gene tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) dysregulation in the brains of individuals who died by suicide. METHOD: TNF-α expression was examined in the...
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