Stress-induced perinatal and transgenerational epigenetic programming of brain development and mental health

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 70-91

  Babenko, Olena ^a,b   Kovalchuk, Igor ^b   Metz, Gerlinde A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Anxiety; Brain development; Depression; DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Gestation; Glucocorticoids; Maternal health; Maternal stress; Mental health; MicroRNA; Neurological disease; Newborn health; Perinatal programming; Pregnancy; Prenatal stress; Psychiatric disease; Small non coding RNA; Stress resilience; Stress vulnerability; Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ALLELE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL FUNCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIET; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; EPIALLELE; EPIGENETICS; FETAL PROGRAMMING; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC STABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MALNUTRITION; MAMMAL; MENTAL HEALTH; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLACENTA; PRENATAL STRESS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPERM; STRESS; TRANSGENERATIONAL EPIGENETIC INHERITANCE; TRANSGENERATIONAL EPIGENETIC PROGRAMMING; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84913580377     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.11.013     Document Type: Review

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