Environmental intervention as a therapy for adverse programming by ancestral stress

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  McCreary, J Keiko ^a   Erickson, Zachary T ^a   Hao, Yongxin ^a   Ilnytskyy, Yaroslav ^b   Kovalchuk, Igor ^b   Metz, Gerlinde A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MICRORNA; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HUMAN; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BIOMARKERS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DOWN-REGULATION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84997170998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep37814     Document Type: Article

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