Sex-specific and strain-dependent effects of early life adversity on behavioral and epigenetic outcomes

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Kundakovic, Marija ^a   Lim, Sean ^a   Gudsnuk, Kathryn ^a   Champagne, Frances A ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Epigenetic; Maternal Separation; Mice; Postnatal; Sex Dependent; Strain Differences

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR GENE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CPG ISLAND; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR GENE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84884482941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00078     Document Type: Article

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