Pre-reproductive maternal enrichment influences rat maternal care and offspring developmental trajectories: behavioral performances and neuroplasticity correlates.

Pre-reproductive maternal enrichment influences rat maternal care and offspring developmental trajectories: behavioral performances and neuroplasticity correlates.

Environmental enrichment (EE) is a widely used paradigm for investigating the influence of complex stimulations on brain and behavior. Here we examined whether pre-reproductive exposure to EE of female rats may influence their maternal care and offspring cognitive performances. To this aim, from wea...

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Main Authors: Debora eCutuli, Paola eCaporali, Francesca eGelfo, Francesco eAngelucci, Daniela eLaricchiuta, Francesca eFoti, Paola eDe Bartolo, Elisa eBisicchia, Marco eMolinari, Stefano eFarioli Vecchioli, Laura ePetrosini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Subjects:
Cognition
Maternal Behavior
Neurogenesis
BDNF
reelin
environmental enrichment
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00066/full

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