Differential Licking in Early Life Alters Stress Behaviour and Brain Gene Expression in Adult Female Rats

We investigated licking and grooming (LG) levels received by each pup from their dams and the locomotor activity, anxiety-like behaviors, and stress reactivity in adult female offspring. We also investigated glucocorticoid receptor (GR) gene expression and its DNA methylation status in the hippocamp...

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Main Author: Pan, Pauline
Other Authors: McGowan, Patrick
Language:en_ca
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43284