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| Title |
Transgenerational programming of maternal behaviour by prenatal stress
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| Published in |
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2393-13-s1-s9 |
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| Authors |
Isaac D Ward, Fabíola CR Zucchi, Jerrah C Robbins, Erin A Falkenberg, David M Olson, Karen Benzies, Gerlinde A Metz |
| Abstract |
Peripartum events hold the potential to have dramatic effects in the programming of physiology and behaviour of offspring and possibly subsequent generations. Here we have characterized transgenerational changes in rat maternal behaviour as a function of gestational and prenatal stress. Pregnant dams of the parental generation were exposed to stress from days 12-18 (F0-S). Their daughters and grand-daughters were either stressed (F1-SS, F2-SSS) or non-stressed (F1-SN, F2-SNN). Maternal antepartum behaviours were analyzed at a time when pregnant dams usually show a high frequency of tail chasing behaviours. F1-SS, F2-SNN and F2-SSS groups showed a significant reduction in tail chasing behaviours when compared with controls. The effects of multigenerational stress (SSS) slightly exceeded those of transgenerational stress (SNN) and resulted in absence of tail chasing behaviour. These findings suggest that antepartum maternal behaviour in rats is programmed by transgenerational inheritance of stress responses. Thus, altered antepartum maternal behaviour may serve as an indicator of an activated stress response during gestation. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 73 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2 | 3% |
| Malaysia | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 68 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 25% |
| Researcher | 11 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 12% |
| Professor | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 7 | 10% |
| Unknown | 14 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 18 | 25% |
| Neuroscience | 14 | 19% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 11% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 11% |
| Psychology | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Unknown | 15 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 April 2013.
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#3,633,021
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Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#959
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#39,328
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#21
of 81 outputs
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