Paternal care paradoxically increases offspring seizure susceptibility in the El mouse model of epilepsy

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 234-241

  Orefice, Lauren L ^a   Heinrichs, Stephen C ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Parental care; Seizure susceptibility; Tail suspension handling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EPILEPSY; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REARING; SEIZURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPILEPSY; FATHERS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOTHERS; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 37749055200     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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