Infant-caregiver experiences alter telomere length in the brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Asok, Arun ^a   Bernard, Kristin ^b   Rosen, Jeffrey B ^a   Dozier, Mary ^a   Roth, Tania L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CAREGIVER; CHILD CARE; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIFE STRESS; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NONHUMAN; NURTURING BEHAVIOR; PERINATAL PERIOD; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84903649504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101437     Document Type: Article

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