Offspring Reports on Parental Place of Upbringing

The Effect of Parental Population Density on Offspring Immune Function

The effect of parental morphine addiction on extracellular glutamate concentration of dentate gyrus in rat offspring: a microdialysis study

Addiction is a major problem of society. The existing evidences have shown that parental addiction impairs CNS development, learning, and memory. With respect to the role of glutamate in dentate gyrus on learning and memory, in this study, the effect of parental addiction to morphine on extracellular glutamate concentration in dentate gyrus was evaluated. For this purpose, male and female rats ...

I’m Eating for Two: Parental Dietary Effects on Offspring Metabolism

It has long been understood that the pathogenesis of complex diseases such as diabetes includes both genetic and environmental components. More recently, it has become clear that not only does an individual's environment influence their own metabolism, but in some cases, the environment experienced by their parents may also contribute to their risk of metabolic disease. Here, we review the evid...

Sex-Specific Parental Effects on Offspring Lipid Levels

BACKGROUND Plasma lipid levels are highly heritable traits, but known genetic loci can only explain a small portion of their heritability. METHODS AND RESULTS In this study, we analyzed the role of parental levels of total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and triglycerides (TGs) in explaining the values of the corresp...

Parental age influences offspring telomere loss

Britt J. Heidinger, Katherine A. Herborn, Hanna M.V. Granroth-Wilding, Winnie Boner, Sarah Burthe, Mark Newell, Sarah Wanless, Francis Daunt and Pat Monaghan Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Graham Kerr Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK; Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Immunology and Inf...