Intensity matters: Brain, behaviour and the epigenome of prenatally stressed rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 180, Issue , 2011, Pages 105-110

  Mychasiuk, R ^a   Ilnytskyy, S ^b   Kovalchuk, O ^b   Kolb, B ^a   Gibb, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Brain development; Epigenetics; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; METHYLATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79953177462     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.02.026     Document Type: Article

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