Exercise alters mouse sperm small noncoding RNAs and induces a transgenerational modification of male offspring conditioned fear and anxiety

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Short, A K ^a,b   Yeshurun, S ^a   Powell, R ^a   Perreau, V M ^a   Fox, A ^a   Kim, J H ^a   Pang, T Y ^a   Hannan, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 133A; MICRORNA 19B; PROLINE; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EXERCISE; FATHER; FEAR; FEMALE; GENDER; HEREDITY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; RNA ANALYSIS; RUNNING; SPERM; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICRORNAS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 85022092546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2017.82     Document Type: Article

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