Saturday, 25 August 2012

Stressful Traits in Mice Often Passed on to Female Offspring

A new study conducted by researchers from Tufts University School of Medicine has found that some traits of the parents, such as stress levels, are often passed on to their female offspring and not male offspring. Adolescent mice exposed to chronic social stress, where their cage composition is constantly changing, exhibit anxiety and poor social interactions through adulthood. "These changes were especially prominent in ...




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