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Effects of repeated maternal separation on anxiety- and depression-related phenotypes in different mouse strains.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews - 1 Jan 2007
Millstein Rachel A, Holmes Andrew
Abstract excerpt
Genetic factors and early life adversity both play a major role in the etiology of mood and anxiety disorders. Previous studies have shown that postnatal maternal separation (MS) can produce lasting abnormalities in emotion-related behavior and neuroendocrine responses to stress in rodents. The present study sought to examine the effects of repeated MS in eight different inbred strains of mice (129S1/SvImJ,...
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