Within- and between-litter maternal care alter behavior and gene regulation in female offspring

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 736-748

  Pan, Pauline ^a   Fleming, Alison S ^a   Lawson, Daeria ^a   Jenkins, Jennifer M ^a   McGowan, Patrick O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Gene expression; Glucocorticoid receptor; Hippocampus; Maternal care

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR GENE; GR1 GENE; GROOMING; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LICKING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR GENE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECTS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG EVANS RAT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DNA METHYLATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GROOMING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84925679858     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/bne0000014     Document Type: Article

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