Differences in mouse maternal care behavior - is there a genetic impact of the glucocorticoid receptor?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Chourbaji, Sabine ^a   Hoyer, Carolin ^a   Richter, S Helene ^a   Brandwein, Christiane ^a   Pfeiffer, Natascha ^a   Vogt, Miriam A ^a   Vollmayr, Barbara ^a   Gass, Peter ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ACTIVE NURSING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGGING BEHAVIOR; DOWN REGULATION; DRINKING; EATING; EMOTIONALITY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GROOMING; HETEROZYGOSITY; LICKING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MOUSE; NEGLECTING BEHAVIOR; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE NURSING; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUP RETRIEVAL TEST; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PREGNANCY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79955746701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019218     Document Type: Article

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