Like mother, like daughter: Evidence for non-genomic transmission of parental behavior and stress responsivity

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 133, Issue , 2001, Pages 287-302

  Champagne, Frances ^a   Meaney, Michael J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; GROOMING; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INHERITANCE; LICKING; LIFE EVENT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NURSING; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0035232001     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(01)33022-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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