Dissociating the effects of alternative early-life feeding schedules on the development of adult depression-like phenotypes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Neville, Vikki ^a,b   Andrews, Clare ^a   Nettle, Daniel ^a   Bateson, Melissa ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; BIRD; DISSOCIATION; FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REWARD; ANIMAL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; STARLING;

ANIMALS; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; REWARD; STARLINGS;

EID: 85032798184     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13776-4     Document Type: Article

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