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SUBMITTER: Dias BG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3923835 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature neuroscience 20131201 1
Using olfactory molecular specificity, we examined the inheritance of parental traumatic exposure, a phenomenon that has been frequently observed, but not understood. We subjected F0 mice to odor fear conditioning before conception and found that subsequently conceived F1 and F2 generations had an increased behavioral sensitivity to the F0-conditioned odor, but not to other odors. When an odor (acetophenone) that activates a known odorant receptor (Olfr151) was used to condition F0 mice, the beh ...[more]