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SUBMITTER: Johnson SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4454565 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Johnson Sarah A SA Javurek Angela B AB Painter Michele S MS Peritore Michael P MP Ellersieck Mark R MR Roberts R Michael RM Rosenfeld Cheryl S CS
PloS one 20150603 6
The nature and extent of care received by an infant can affect social, emotional and cognitive development, features that endure into adulthood. Here we employed the monogamous, California mouse (Peromyscus californicus), a species, like the human, where both parents invest in offspring care, to determine whether early exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC: bisphenol A, BPA; ethinyl estradiol, EE) of one or both parents altered their behaviors towards their pups. Females exposed to eit ...[more]