Evaluating the interaction between early postnatal inflammation and maternal care in the programming of adult anxiety and depression-related behaviors

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 56-65

  Lucchina, Luciana ^a   Carola, Valeria ^b,c   Pitossi, Fernando ^d   Depino, Amaicha Mara ^a,e  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d FUNDACIÓN INSTITUTO LELOIR   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Anxiety behavior; Depression behavior; F1 hybrids; Maternal care; Postnatal inflammation; Principal component analysis; Programming of adult behavior

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CORTICOSTERONE;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DESENSITIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77953363512     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.04.032     Document Type: Article

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