Transcriptional modulation of the developing immune system by early life social adversity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 50, 2012, Pages 20578-20583

  Cole, Steven W ^a   Conti, Gabriella ^b   Arevalo, Jesusa M G ^a   Ruggiero, Angela M ^c   Heckman, James J ^d,e,f   Suomi, Stephen J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Social genomics; Stress

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERFERON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EARLY LIFE SOCIAL ADVERSITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTE; MONOCYTE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REARING; RHESUS MONKEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SURROGATE MOTHER; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84874418586     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218253109     Document Type: Article

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