Maternal imprints and the origins of variation

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 4-11

  Champagne, Frances A ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Epigenetic; ER ; Maternal; Reproductive strategy; Transgenerational

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; VASOPRESSIN;

BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INHERITANCE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL STRESS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; WEANING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS;

EID: 79958074497     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2011.02.016     Document Type: Review

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