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Maternal programming of individual differences in defensive responses in the rat.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Dec 2004
Zhang Tie-Yuan, Parent Carine, Weaver Ian, Meaney Michael J
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This paper describes the results of a series of studies showing that variations in mother-pup interactions program the development of individual differences in behavioral and endocrine stress responses in the rat. These effects are associated with altered expression of genes in brain regions, such as the amygdala, hippocampus, and hypothalamus, that regulate the expression of stress responses. Studies from...
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