Behavioral and neurobiological effects of prenatal stress exposure in male and female APPswe/PS1dE9 mice

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 319-337

  Sierksma, Annerieke S R ^a   Prickaerts, Jos ^a   Chouliaras, Leonidas ^a   Rostamian, Somayeh ^a   Delbroek, Lore ^a   Rutten, Bart P F ^a   Steinbusch, Harry W M ^a   van den Hove, Daniel L A ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 hydroxymethylcytidine (5hmc); 5 methylcytidine (5mC); Alzheimer's disease; APPswe; DNA hydroxymethylation; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Prenatal stress; PS1dE9; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; 5 METHYLCYTOSINE; CORTICOSTERONE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; GENOMIC DNA;

AFFECT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA METHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; MOUSE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

5-METHYLCYTOSINE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS; BENZOFURANS; COGNITION DISORDERS; CYTOSINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PRESENILIN-1; QUINOLINES; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84868090561     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.05.012     Document Type: Article

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