Early rearing history influences oxytocin receptor epigenetic regulation in rhesus macaques

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 44, 2017, Pages 11769-11774

  Baker, Maggie ^a   Lindell, Stephen G ^a   Driscoll, Carlos A ^a   Zhou, Zhifeng ^a   Yuan, Qiaoping ^a   Schwandt, Melanie L ^a   Miller Crews, Isaac ^a   Simpson, Elizabeth A ^b   Paukner, Annika ^b   Ferrari, Pier Francesco ^c   Sindhu, Ravi Kumar ^a   Razaqyar, Muslima ^a   Sommer, Wolfgang H ^d   Lopez, Juan F ^e   Thompson, Robert C ^e   Goldman, David ^a   Heilig, Markus ^f   Dee Higley, J ^g   Suomi, Stephen J ^b   Barr, Christina S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetic; Maternal care; Oxytocin; Primate; Stress

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H3; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; HISTONE; OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL STRESS; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPAL TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REARING; RHESUS MONKEY; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANXIETY, SEPARATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONES; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; OXYTOCIN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 85032733624     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1706206114     Document Type: Article

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