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Chromatin Switches during Neural Cell Differentiation and Their Dysregulation by Prenatal Alcohol Exposure.

David P Gavin, Dennis R Grayson, Sajoy P Varghese, Marina Guizzetti

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Review in Genes, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

David P GavinJesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 820 South Damen Avenue (M/C 151), Chicago, IL 60612, USA. dgavin@psych.uic.edu.
Dennis R GraysonCenter for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1601 W. Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60612, USA. dgrayson@psych.uic.edu.
Sajoy P VargheseJesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 820 South Damen Avenue (M/C 151), Chicago, IL 60612, USA. sajoy.varghese@va.gov.
Marina GuizzettiDepartment of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road L470, Portland, OR 97239, USA. guizzett@ohsu.edu.
University of Illinois Chicago · USJesse Brown VA Medical Center · USOregon Health & Science University · US

Funding

Pilot Project Program P50AA022538 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI SUBHASH C. PANDEY · 2015 to 2026
$21.3M
Astrocyte-neuron interactions and sulfatases in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum DisordersR01AA022948 · NIAAA · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI GUIZZETTI, MARINA · 2015 to 2019
$1.5M
Epigenetics underlies long-term risk of relapse during abstinenceR01AA021468 · NIAAA · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI GUIZZETTI, MARINA · 2013 to 2017
$1.5M
Effect of ethanol on chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans: relevance to FASDR21AA021876 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI GUIZZETTI, MARINA · 2014 to 2015
$413k
BLRD VA I01 BX001819BLRD VA IK2 BX001650NIAAA NIH HHS P50 AA022538NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA021468NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA022948NIAAA NIH HHS R21 AA021876
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prenatal alcohol exposure causes persistent neuropsychiatric deficits included under the term fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). Cellular identity emerges from a cascade of intrinsic and extrinsic (involving cell-cell interactions and signaling) processes that are partially initiated and maintained through changes in chromatin structure. Prenatal alcohol exposure influences neuronal and astrocyte development, permanently altering brain connectivity. Prenatal alcohol exposure also alters chromatin structure through histone and DNA modifications. However, the data linking alcohol-induced differentiation changes with developmental alterations in chromatin structure remain to be elucidated. In the first part of this review, we discuss the sequence of chromatin structural changes involved in neural cell differentiation during normal development. We then discuss the effects of prenatal alcohol on developmental histone modifications and DNA methylation in the context of neurogenesis and astrogliogenesis. We attempt to synthesize the developmental literature with the FASD literature, proposing that alcohol-induced changes to chromatin structure account for altered neurogenesis and astrogliogenesis as well as altered neuron and astrocyte differentiation. Together these changes may contribute to the cognitive and behavioral abnormalities in FASD. Future studies using standardized alcohol exposure paradigms at specific developmental stages will advance the understanding of how chromatin structural changes impact neural cell fate and maturation in FASD.

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astrocyteschromatinDNA methylationfetal alcoholhistone modificationsneural cell differentiationneurons

Identifiers

PMID28492482
PMCPMC5448011
OpenAlexW2613646859

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