Dietary choline supplementation to dams during pregnancy and lactation mitigates the effects of in utero stress exposure on adult anxiety-related behaviors

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 268, Issue , 2014, Pages 104-110

  Schulz, Kalynn M ^a,b   Pearson, Jennifer N ^c   Gasparrini, Mary E ^a,b   Brooks, Kayla F ^a,b   Drake Frazier, Chakeer ^a,b   Zajkowski, Megan E ^a,b   Kreisler, Alison D ^d   Adams, Catherine E ^a,b   Leonard, Sherry ^a,b,c   Stevens, Karen E ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Choline; Diet; Hippocampus; Maternal stress; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Prenatal stress; Psychopathology; Supplementation

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHOLINE SUPPLEMENTATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAM (ANIMAL); DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FEMALE; LACTATION; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BODY WEIGHT; DIAGNOSIS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLINE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84899145812     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.03.031     Document Type: Article

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