Developmental timing of the effects of maternal care on gene expression and epigenetic regulation of hormone receptor levels in female rats

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4340-4351

  Peña, Catherine Jensen ^a,b   Neugut, Y Dana ^b   Champagne, Frances A ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; HISTONE H3; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RAT; WEANING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HYPOTHALAMUS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEC; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84886480962     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1595     Document Type: Article

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