Transgenerational effects of early experience on behavioral, hormonal and gene expression responses to acute stress in the precocial chicken

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 711-718

  Goerlich, Vivian C ^a   Nätt, Daniel ^a   Elfwing, Magnus ^a   Macdonald, Barry ^a   Jensen, Per ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone receptor; Early growth response; Gene expression; Postnatal stress; Steroid hormones; Transgenerational effects

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; CRHR1 GENE; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EGR1 GENE; EPIGENETICS; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; GALLUS GALLUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INHERITANCE; MALE; MARKER GENE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PDE5A GENE; PDK4 GENE; PHENOTYPE; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHICKENS; COHORT EFFECT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84860503355     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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