Mice Fathers Pass Down Stress Responses to Offspring Via Sperm (IMAGE)

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Mice Fathers Pass Down Stress Responses to Offspring Via Sperm

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Paternal exposure to chronic stress alters stress sensitivity of male offspring in adulthood. In sons produced by natural mating, there was a main effect of chronic stress in social interaction (SI) testing. Control and resilient sons had a higher SI ratio after CSDS exposure, whereas susceptible sons did not show this effect. There was a similar effect in sons produced by artificial insemination.

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Cunningham et al., <em>JNeurosci</em> 2021

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