Male mice exposed to chronic social stress have anxious female offspring (EurekAlert, 22 August 2012)

23 Aug 2012


A study on mice published in Biological Psychiatry investigates the impact of chronic social instability during youth on the behaviour of offspring, and suggests that the effect of stress may be passed on through epigenetic changes in sperm.

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