Maternal oxytocin treatment at birth increases epigenetic age in male offspring
Joshua S. Danoff,
C. Sue Carter,
Juozas Gordevičius
et al.
Abstract:Exogenous oxytocin is widely used to induce or augment labor with little understanding of the impact on offspring development. In rodent models, including the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster), it has been shown that oxytocin administered to mothers can affect the nervous system of the offspring with long‐lasting behavioral effects especially on sociality. Here, we examined the hypothesis that perinatal oxytocin exposure could have epigenetic and transcriptomic consequences. Prairie voles were exposed to exo… Show more
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