Oxytocin pathways in the intergenerational transmission of maternal early life stress

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 73, Issue , 2017, Pages 293-308

  Toepfer, Philipp ^a   Heim, Christine ^a,b   Entringer, Sonja ^a,c   Binder, Elisabeth ^d,e   Wadhwa, Pathik ^c   Buss, Claudia ^a,c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Development; Early life stress; Epigenetics; Gene environment interactions; Intergenerational transmission; Mother child; Oxytocin; Parenting behavior

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

BORDERLINE STATE; BRAIN REGION; CONNECTOME; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIGENETICS; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION; MENTAL STRESS; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLESIOMORPHY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; METABOLISM; MOTHER CHILD RELATION;

CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85008315504     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.12.026     Document Type: Review

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