The α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and the acute stress response: Maternal genotype determines offspring phenotype

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 321-326

  Sinkus, Melissa L ^a   Wamboldt, Marianne Z ^a   Barton, Amanda ^a   Fingerlin, Tasha E ^a   Laudenslager, Mark L ^a   Leonard, Sherry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Association study; Cortisol; Genetics; Stress

Indexed keywords

BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATOPY; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVA LEVEL; SCHOOL CHILD; STRESS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958795183     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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