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Trans-generational effects of early life stress: the role of maternal behavior.
Scientific reports - 2 May 2014
Schmauss Claudia, Lee-McDermott Zoe, Medina Liorimar Ramos
Abstract excerpt
Using a rodent paradigm of early life stress, infant maternal separation (IMS), we examined whether IMS-triggered behavioral and epigenetic phenotypes of the stress-susceptible mouse strain Balb/c are propagated across generations. These phenotypes include impaired emotional behavior and deficits in executive cognitive functions in adulthood, and they are associated with increased acetylation of histone H4K12...
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