Maternal exposure to environmental enrichment before and during gestation influences behaviour of rat offspring in a sex-specific manner

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 163, Issue , 2016, Pages 274-287

  Zuena, Anna Rita ^a   Zinni, Manuela ^a   Giuli, Chiara ^a   Cinque, Carlo ^a,c   Alemà, Giovanni Sebastiano ^a   Giuliani, Alessandro ^b   Catalani, Assia ^a   Casolini, Paola ^a   Cozzolino, Roberto ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c Fondazione Ethoikos   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Early programming; Maternal behaviour; Play behaviour; Social hierarchy; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; GROOMING; LACTATION; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LICKING; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MATING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPATIAL LEARNING; SWIMMING; WEANING; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GESTATIONAL AGE; MAZE TEST; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WISTAR RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MAZE LEARNING; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWIMMING;

EID: 84969594396     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.05.010     Document Type: Article

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