Maternal Care Received by Individual Pups Correlates with Adult CA1 Dendritic Morphology and Synaptic Plasticity in a Sex-Dependent Manner

Adult hippocampal glucocorticoid recepto

Adult hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor expression and dentate synaptic plasticity correlate with maternal care received by individuals early in life

✍ Felisa N. van Hasselt; Sandra Cornelisse; Tie Yuan Zhang; Michael J. Meaney; Els 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 839 KB

## Abstract Maternal care in mammals is the prevailing environmental influence during perinatal development. The adult rat offspring of mothers exhibiting increased levels of pup licking/grooming (LG; High LG mothers), compared to those reared by Low LG dams, show increased hippocampal glucocortico