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SUBMITTER: Nettle D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5240102 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nettle Daniel D Andrews Clare C Reichert Sophie S Bedford Tom T Kolenda Claire C Parker Craig C Martin-Ruiz Carmen C Monaghan Pat P Bateson Melissa M
Scientific reports 20170117
Early-life adversity is associated with accelerated cellular ageing during development and increased inflammation during adulthood. However, human studies can only establish correlation, not causation, and existing experimental animal approaches alter multiple components of early-life adversity simultaneously. We developed a novel hand-rearing paradigm in European starling nestlings (Sturnus vulgaris), in which we separately manipulated nutritional shortfall and begging effort for a period of 10 ...[more]