Maternal immune activation transgenerationally modulates maternal care and offspring depression-like behavior

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 63, Issue , 2017, Pages 127-136

  Ronovsky, Marianne ^a   Berger, Stefanie ^a   Zambon, Alice ^a   Reisinger, Sonali N ^a   Horvath, Orsolya ^a   Pollak, Arnold ^b   Lindtner, Claudia ^b   Berger, Angelika ^b   Pollak, Daniela D ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIV KLIN KINDER JUGENDHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Depression; Epigenetics; Glucocorticoid receptor; Hippocampus; Maternal care behavior; Maternal immune activation; Mineralocorticoid receptor; Oxytocin receptor; Transgenerational

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; POLYINOSINIC POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYTOKINE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FORCED SWIM TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL IMMUNE ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; ROTAROD TEST; SUCROSE PREFERENCE TEST; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DISEASE; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; FAMILY SIZE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN DISEASES; CYTOKINES; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLY I-C; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 85006165395     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2016.10.016     Document Type: Article

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