Parental enrichment and offspring development: Modifications to brain, behavior and the epigenome

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 294-298

  Mychasiuk, Richelle ^a   Zahir, Saif ^a   Schmold, Nichole ^b   Ilnytskyy, Slava ^c   Kovalchuk, Olga ^c   Gibb, Robbin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Frontal cortex; Hippocampus; Long Evans rats; Methylation; Pre conception; Prenatal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN TISSUE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENOME; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENOME; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATING; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL ENRICHMENT; PATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84856220916     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.11.036     Document Type: Article

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