Chunk #69 — Reversal of the maternal effect on GR expression and HPA responses to stress

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Environmental programming of stress responses through DNA methylation: life at the interface between a dynamic environment and a fixed genome.

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These findings have important implications for our understanding of the mechanisms linking early maternal behavior and stable changes in behavior later in adulthood as well as on our understanding of the mechanisms responsible for maintaining the DNA methylation pattern in adult postmitotic tissues.