Low maternal care exacerbates adult stress susceptibility in the chronic mild stress rat model of depression

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 735-743

  Henningsen, Kim ^a   Dyrvig, Mads ^b   Bouzinova, Elena V ^a   Christiansen, Sofie ^a   Christensen, Trine ^a   Andreasen, Jesper T ^a   Palme, Rupert ^c   Lichota, Jacek ^b   Wiborg, Ove ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

chronic mild stress; corticosterone; depression; epigenetics; glucocorticoid receptor; maternal care; rat; resilience; susceptibility

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOSINE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SUCROSE;

ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MATERNAL CARE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN FIELD TEST; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; STRESS MANAGEMENT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84870052892     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: 14735849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e32835a5184     Document Type: Article

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