Broad epigenetic signature of maternal care in the brain of adult rats

PO McGowan, M Suderman, A Sasaki, TCT Huang… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Maternal care is associated with long-term effects on behavior and epigenetic
programming of the NR3C1 (GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR) gene in the hippocampus of …

Conserved epigenetic sensitivity to early life experience in the rat and human hippocampus

M Suderman, PO McGowan, A Sasaki… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Early life experience is associated with long-term effects on behavior and epigenetic
programming of the NR3C1 (GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR) gene in the hippocampus of …

Maternal programming of steroid receptor expression and phenotype through DNA methylation in the rat

M Szyf, ICG Weaver, FA Champagne, J Diorio… - Frontiers in …, 2005 - Elsevier
Increased levels of pup licking/grooming and arched-back nursing by rat mothers over the
first week of life alter the epigenome at a glucocorticoid receptor gene promoter in the …

Maternal imprints and the origins of variation

FA Champagne - Hormones and behavior, 2011 - Elsevier
The non-genomic transmission of maternal behavior from one generation to the next
illustrates the pervasive influence of maternal care on offspring development and the high …

Reversal of maternal programming of stress responses in adult offspring through methyl supplementation: altering epigenetic marking later in life

ICG Weaver, FA Champagne, SE Brown… - Journal of …, 2005 - Soc Neuroscience
Stress responses in the adult rat are programmed early in life by maternal care and
associated with epigenomic marking of the hippocampal exon 17 glucocorticoid receptor …

Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior

ICG Weaver, N Cervoni, FA Champagne… - Nature …, 2004 - nature.com
Here we report that increased pup licking and grooming (LG) and arched-back nursing
(ABN) by rat mothers altered the offspring epigenome at a glucocorticoid receptor (GR) gene …

Epigenetic Programming by Maternal Behavior and Pharmacological Intervention Nature Versus Nurture: Let's Call The Whole Thing Off

ICG Weaver - Epigenetics, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The nature of maternal care that an infant receives can effect the child's emotional and
cognitive development, which is endured into adulthood. Similarly, maternal behavior in …

Maternal separation is associated with strain‐specific responses to stress and epigenetic alterations to Nr3c1, Avp, and Nr4a1 in mouse

RL Kember, EL Dempster, THA Lee… - Brain and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Stressful events early in life have been widely linked to behavioral phenotypes and have
been implicated in the development of psychiatric disorders. Using a maternal separation …

Maternal care effects on the hippocampal transcriptome and anxiety-mediated behaviors in the offspring that are reversible in adulthood

ICG Weaver, MJ Meaney… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
Early-life experience has long-term consequences on behavior and stress responsivity of
the adult. We previously proposed that early-life experience results in stable epigenetic …

Epigenetic mechanisms mediating the long-term effects of maternal care on development

FA Champagne, JP Curley - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
The long-term consequences of early environmental experiences for development have
been explored extensively in animal models to better understand the mechanisms mediating …