Early life stress in fathers improves behavioural flexibility in their offspring

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gapp, Katharina ^a   Soldado Magraner, Saray ^a   Alvarez Sánchez, María ^b   Bohacek, Johannes ^a   Vernaz, Gregoire ^a   Shu, Huan ^a   Franklin, Tamara B ^c   Wolfer, David ^b   Mansuy, Isabelle M ^a  

^a University of Zurich Brain Research Institute   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EMBL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HISTONE;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MIMICRY; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; RODENT;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FATHER; FATHER CHILD RELATION; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MATERNAL STRESS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYROSEQUENCING; RESPONSE TIME; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PEDIGREE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PSYCHOLOGY;

MUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FATHERS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONES; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, ANIMAL; PEDIGREE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84926369962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6466     Document Type: Article

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