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Elevated paternal glucocorticoid exposure alters the small noncoding RNA profile in sperm and modifies anxiety and depressive phenotypes in the offspring.
Translational psychiatry - 14 Jun 2016
Short A K, Fennell K A, Perreau V M, Fox A, O'Bryan M K, Kim J H, Bredy T W, Pang T Y, Hannan A J
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Recent studies have suggested that physiological and behavioral traits may be transgenerationally inherited through the paternal lineage, possibly via non-genomic signals derived from the sperm. To investigate how paternal stress might influence offspring behavioral phenotypes, a model of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysregulation was used. Male breeders were administered water supplemented with...
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