Elevated paternal glucocorticoid exposure alters the small noncoding RNA profile in sperm and modifies anxiety and depressive phenotypes in the offspring

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Short, A K ^a   Fennell, K A ^a   Perreau, V M ^a   Fox, A ^a   O'bryan, M K ^b   Kim, J H ^a   Bredy, T W ^c   Pang, T Y ^a   Hannan, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MICRORNA 144; MICRORNA 190B; MICRORNA 192; MICRORNA 26B; MICRORNA 350; MICRORNA 449A; MICRORNA 98; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; SOMATOMEDIN B; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; IGF2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MICRORNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOWN REGULATION; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORCED SWIM TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILITY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL STRESS; PATERNAL INHERITANCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POSTNATAL CARE; PROGENY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECTS; EXON; GENETICS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; EXONS; FEAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICRORNAS; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PHENOTYPE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SEX FACTORS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84994528535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2016.109     Document Type: Article

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