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M J Meaney

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1 Maternal care, hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress. Science 1997 8.90
2 Nongenomic transmission across generations of maternal behavior and stress responses in the rat. Science 1999 6.24
3 Cortisol levels during human aging predict hippocampal atrophy and memory deficits. Nat Neurosci 1998 4.76
4 Early, postnatal experience alters hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) mRNA, median eminence CRF content and stress-induced release in adult rats. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 1993 4.13
5 Maternal care during infancy regulates the development of neural systems mediating the expression of fearfulness in the rat. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998 3.58
6 The role of the medial prefrontal cortex (cingulate gyrus) in the regulation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress. J Neurosci 1993 3.47
7 Maternal care, hippocampal synaptogenesis and cognitive development in rats. Nat Neurosci 2000 3.42
8 Maturation of the adrenocortical stress response: neuroendocrine control mechanisms and the stress hyporesponsive period. Brain Res 1986 2.73
9 Can poverty get under your skin? basal cortisol levels and cognitive function in children from low and high socioeconomic status. Dev Psychopathol 2001 2.48
10 Long-term behavioral and neuroendocrine adaptations to adverse early experience. Prog Brain Res 2000 2.45
11 Naturally occurring variations in maternal behavior in the rat are associated with differences in estrogen-inducible central oxytocin receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2001 2.43
12 Child's stress hormone levels correlate with mother's socioeconomic status and depressive state. Biol Psychiatry 2000 2.28
13 Do early-life events permanently alter behavioral and hormonal responses to stressors? Int J Dev Neurosci 1998 2.19
14 Variations in maternal behaviour are associated with differences in oxytocin receptor levels in the rat. J Neuroendocrinol 2000 2.00
15 Basal cortisol levels and cognitive deficits in human aging. J Neurosci 1994 1.97
16 Variations in maternal care in infancy regulate the development of stress reactivity. Biol Psychiatry 2000 1.91
17 Like mother, like daughter: evidence for non-genomic transmission of parental behavior and stress responsivity. Prog Brain Res 2001 1.83
18 Naturally occurring differences in maternal care are associated with the expression of oxytocin and vasopressin (V1a) receptors: gender differences. J Neuroendocrinol 2002 1.81
19 Maternal care and the development of stress responses. Curr Opin Neurobiol 1999 1.79
20 Variations in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal response to stress during the estrous cycle in the rat. Endocrinology 1991 1.77
21 The effects of early rearing environment on the development of GABAA and central benzodiazepine receptor levels and novelty-induced fearfulness in the rat. Neuropsychopharmacology 2000 1.76
22 Development of adult ethanol preference and anxiety as a consequence of neonatal maternal separation in Long Evans rats and reversal with antidepressant treatment. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2001 1.71
23 5'-heterogeneity of glucocorticoid receptor messenger RNA is tissue specific: differential regulation of variant transcripts by early-life events. Mol Endocrinol 2000 1.69
24 The effects of chronic antidepressant treatment in an animal model of anxiety. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 1988 1.63
25 Enduring effects of chronic corticosterone treatment on spatial learning, synaptic plasticity, and hippocampal neuropathology in young and mid-aged rats. J Neurosci 1995 1.63
26 Partial reversal of the effect of maternal care on cognitive function through environmental enrichment. Neuroscience 2003 1.58
27 Sex-specific effects of prenatal stress on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress and brain glucocorticoid receptor density in adult rats. Brain Res Dev Brain Res 1995 1.56
28 Stress-induced declarative memory impairment in healthy elderly subjects: relationship to cortisol reactivity. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1997 1.56
29 Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity in aged, cognitively impaired and cognitively unimpaired rats. J Neurosci 1990 1.51
30 Epigenetic programming of phenotypic variations in reproductive strategies in the rat through maternal care. J Neuroendocrinol 2008 1.50
31 Increased cortisol levels and impaired cognition in human aging: implication for depression and dementia in later life. Rev Neurosci 1999 1.47
32 Maternal care, gene expression, and the development of individual differences in stress reactivity. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1999 1.44
33 High-fat feeding alters both basal and stress-induced hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity in the rat. Am J Physiol 1997 1.39
34 The role of corticotropin-releasing factor--norepinephrine systems in mediating the effects of early experience on the development of behavioral and endocrine responses to stress. Biol Psychiatry 1999 1.39
35 Neonatal endotoxin exposure alters the development of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis: early illness and later responsivity to stress. J Neurosci 1995 1.38
36 Influence of neonatal rearing conditions on stress-induced adrenocorticotropin responses and norepinepherine release in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus. J Neuroendocrinol 2000 1.34
37 The inhibitory effect of testosterone on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress is mediated by the medial preoptic area. J Neurosci 1996 1.33
38 Neonatal-androgens influence the social play of prepubescent rats. Horm Behav 1981 1.28
39 Testosterone implants into the amygdala during the neonatal period masculinize the social play of juvenile female rats. Brain Res 1986 1.26
40 A comparison of the effects of diazepam versus several typical and atypical anti-depressant drugs in an animal model of anxiety. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 1989 1.23
41 The effects of early postnatal stimulation on Morris water-maze acquisition in adult mice: genetic and maternal factors. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 1996 1.20
42 Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function in chronic intermittently cold-stressed neonatally handled and non handled rats. J Neuroendocrinol 1995 1.14
43 Facilitation of acetylcholine release and cognitive performance by an M(2)-muscarinic receptor antagonist in aged memory-impaired. J Neurosci 1995 1.09
44 Summary of a National Institute of Mental Health workshop: developing animal models of anxiety disorders. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2001 1.08
45 Longitudinal study of basal cortisol levels in healthy elderly subjects: evidence for subgroups. Neurobiol Aging 1996 1.07
46 Sexual differentiation of social play in rat pups is mediated by the neonatal androgen-receptor system. Neuroendocrinology 1983 1.06
47 Glucocorticoids, hippocampal corticosteroid receptor gene expression and antidepressant treatment: relationship with spatial learning in young and aged rats. Neuroscience 1995 1.06
48 Increased plasma ACTH responses to stress in nonhandled compared with handled rats require basal levels of corticosterone and are associated with increased levels of ACTH secretagogues in the median eminence. J Neurosci 1993 1.02
49 Early postnatal handling alters glucocorticoid receptor concentrations in selected brain regions. Behav Neurosci 1985 1.02
50 Sex-dependent effects of amygdaloid lesions on the social play of prepubertal rats. Physiol Behav 1981 1.01
51 The effects of early postnatal handling on hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor concentrations: temporal parameters. Brain Res 1985 0.98
52 Serotonin transporter allelic variation in mothers predicts maternal sensitivity, behavior and attitudes toward 6-month-old infants. Genes Brain Behav 2011 0.98
53 Influence of naturally occurring variations in maternal care on prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle and the medial prefrontal cortical dopamine response to stress in adult rats. J Neurosci 2005 0.97
54 Enhanced nucleus accumbens dopamine and plasma corticosterone stress responses in adult rats with neonatal excitotoxic lesions to the medial prefrontal cortex. Neuroscience 2000 0.97
55 The role of early environmental events in regulating neuroendocrine development. Moms, pups, stress, and glucocorticoid receptors. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1996 0.96
56 [3H]Dexamethasone binding in rat frontal cortex. Brain Res 1985 0.95
57 The development of the glucocorticoid receptor system in the rat limbic brain. III. Negative-feedback regulation. Brain Res 1985 0.95
58 Postnatal handling alters glucocorticoid, but not mineralocorticoid messenger RNA expression in the hippocampus of adult rats. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 1994 0.95
59 Hippocampal neurodegeneration in aging. Science 1996 0.95
60 Role of the central benzodiazepine receptor system in behavioral habituation to novelty. Behav Neurosci 1989 0.94
61 The development of the glucocorticoid receptor system in the rat limbic brain. I. Ontogeny and autoregulation. Brain Res 1985 0.94
62 Ionotropic glutamate receptor subtypes in the aged memory-impaired and unimpaired Long-Evans rat. Neuroscience 1996 0.94
63 Early environmental regulation of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor gene expression: characterization of intracellular mediators and potential genomic target sites. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2001 0.93
64 Reactivity to novelty in cognitively-impaired and cognitively-unimpaired aged rats and young rats. Neuroscience 1998 0.92
65 Serotonin regulates type II corticosteroid receptor binding in hippocampal cell cultures. J Neurosci 1990 0.92
66 Nature, nurture or nutrition? Impact of maternal nutrition on maternal care, offspring development and reproductive function. J Physiol 2012 0.91
67 Effects of corticosterone on response consolidation and retrieval in the forced swim test. Behav Neurosci 1991 0.91
68 Serotonergic regulation of type II corticosteroid receptor binding in hippocampal cell cultures: evidence for the importance of serotonin-induced changes in cAMP levels. Neuroscience 1992 0.91
69 Increased pituitary sensitivity to glucocorticoid feedback during the stress nonresponsive period in the neonatal rat. Endocrinology 1986 0.91
70 Temporal boundary of the sensitive period for hormonal organization of social play in juvenile rats. Physiol Behav 1981 0.91
71 Early life events and later development of ischaemic heart disease. Lancet 1993 0.91
72 Effects of chronic intermittent cold stress on pituitary adrenocortical and sympathetic adrenomedullary functioning. Physiol Behav 1995 0.90
73 Maternal anxiety and infants' hippocampal development: timing matters. Transl Psychiatry 2013 0.89
74 Thyroid hormones influence the development of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors in the rat: a mechanism for the effects of postnatal handling on the development of the adrenocortical stress response. Neuroendocrinology 1987 0.89
75 Acute modulation of aged human memory by pharmacological manipulation of glucocorticoids. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2002 0.89
76 Peripheral benzodiazepine binding sites in Alzheimer's disease frontal and temporal cortex. Neurobiol Aging 1991 0.89
77 Neonatal handling alters serotonin (5-HT) turnover and 5-HT2 receptor binding in selected brain regions: relationship to the handling effect on glucocorticoid receptor expression. Brain Res Dev Brain Res 1994 0.89
78 The sexual differentiation of social play. Trends Neurosci 1988 0.88
79 The role of serotonin in the development and environmental regulation of type II corticosteroid receptor binding in rat hippocampus. Brain Res Dev Brain Res 1990 0.88
80 The effects of postnatal handling on the development of the glucocorticoid receptor systems and stress recovery in the rat. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 1985 0.87
81 Studies of a neurochemical link between depression, anxiety, and stress from [3H]imipramine and [3H]paroxetine binding on human platelets. Biol Psychiatry 1994 0.86
82 Effects of aging on nicotinic and muscarinic autoreceptor function in the rat brain: relationship to presynaptic cholinergic markers and binding sites. J Neurosci 1990 0.86
83 Central and feedback regulation of hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing factor secretion. Ciba Found Symp 1993 0.85
84 Temporally graded, age-related impairments in spatial memory in the rat. Neurobiol Aging 1989 0.85
85 In vitro measurement of cytosol and cell nuclear androgen receptors in male rat brain and pituitary. Brain Res 1983 0.85
86 The interaction between prenatal stress and neonatal handling on nociceptive response latencies in male and female rats. Physiol Behav 1994 0.85
87 Alpha1 adrenoreceptors mediate the stimulatory effects of oestrogen on stress-related hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity in the female rat. J Neuroendocrinol 2004 0.84
88 Cholinergic markers in aged cognitively impaired Long-Evans rats. Neuroscience 1995 0.84
89 Hippocampal cell death. Science 1996 0.84
90 The development of the glucocorticoid receptor system in the rat limbic brain. II. An autoradiographic study. Brain Res 1985 0.83
91 Adrenal phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase induction in relation to glucocorticoid receptor dynamics: evidence that acute exposure to high cortisol levels is sufficient to induce the enzyme. J Neurochem 1992 0.83
92 Genetic variation in oxytocin rs2740210 and early adversity associated with postpartum depression and breastfeeding duration. Genes Brain Behav 2013 0.83
93 Variation in maternal care influences ventromedial hypothalamus activation in the rat. J Neuroendocrinol 2011 0.82
94 The effects of acute and life-long food restriction on basal and stress-induced serum corticosterone levels in young and aged rats. Endocrinology 1988 0.82
95 Spatial memory in transgenic mice with impaired glucocorticoid receptor function. Neuroreport 1997 0.82
96 Changes in plasma adrenocorticotropin, corticosterone, corticosteroid-binding globulin, and hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor occupancy/translocation in rat pups in response to stress. J Neuroendocrinol 1996 0.82
97 Neonatal handling permanently alters hypothalamic-pituitary- adrenal axis function, behaviour, and body weight in boars. J Endocrinol 2000 0.81
98 Postnatal handling reduces novelty-induced fear and increases [3H]flunitrazepam binding in rat brain. Eur J Pharmacol 1987 0.81
99 Long-term effects of BIBN-99, a selective muscarinic M2 receptor antagonist, on improving spatial memory performance in aged cognitively impaired rats. Behav Brain Res 2003 0.81
100 Postnatal development and environmental regulation of hippocampal glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors. Brain Res 1988 0.81
101 Glucocorticoid binding sites in human temporal cortex. Brain Res 1988 0.81
102 [3H]dexamethasone binding in the limbic brain of the fetal rat. Brain Res 1985 0.81
103 Stimulation of CRH-mediated ACTH secretion by central administration of neurotensin: evidence for the participation of the paraventricular nucleus. J Neuroendocrinol 1995 0.80
104 Dynamic variations in plasma corticosteroid-binding globulin and basal HPA activity following acute stress in adult rats. J Neuroendocrinol 1997 0.80
105 Blockade of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal response to stress by intraventricular injection of dexamethasone: a method for studying the stress-induced peripheral effects of glucocorticoids. Psychoneuroendocrinology 1993 0.79
106 Glucocorticoid receptor gene expression is unaltered in hippocampal neurons in Alzheimer's disease. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 1993 0.79
107 Estrogen-induced hypothalamic beta-endorphin neuron loss: a possible model of hypothalamic aging. Exp Gerontol 1995 0.79
108 Neurotensin receptor levels as a function of brain aging and cognitive performance in the Morris water maze task in the rat. Peptides 2006 0.79
109 Dopamine receptors D1 and D2 are related to observed maternal behavior. Genes Brain Behav 2012 0.79
110 Effects of adrenalectomy and corticosterone replacement on glucocorticoid receptor levels in rat brain tissue: a comparison between western blotting and receptor binding assays. Brain Res 1995 0.79
111 Plaque-forming cell responses and antibody titers following injection of sheep red blood cells in nonstressed, acute, and/or chronically stressed handled and nonhandled animals. Dev Psychobiol 1996 0.79
112 Central administration of neurotensin stimulates hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity. The paraventricular CRF neuron as a critical site of action. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1992 0.78
113 Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activation following endotoxin administration in the developing rat: a CRH-mediated effect. J Neuroendocrinol 1994 0.78
114 The influence of glucocorticoids during the neonatal period on the development of play-fighting in Norway rat pups. Horm Behav 1982 0.78
115 Age-related changes in glucocorticoid receptor binding and mRNA levels in the rat brain and pituitary. Neurobiol Aging 1992 0.78
116 Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity during chronic central administration of interleukin-2. Endocrinology 1994 0.78
117 Median eminence corticotrophin-releasing hormone content following prenatal stress and neonatal handling. Brain Res Bull 1996 0.78
118 Tissue-specific differences in rat glucocorticoid receptor gene transcriptional regulation. Biochem Soc Trans 1998 0.77
119 Central administration of the neurotensin receptor antagonist, SR48692, modulates diurnal and stress-related hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity. Neuroendocrinology 1997 0.77
120 Nuclear and cytosolic androgen receptor levels in the limbic brain of neonatal male and female rats. Brain Res 1985 0.77
121 Maternal childhood adversity and child temperament: an association moderated by child 5-HTTLPR genotype. Genes Brain Behav 2015 0.77
122 Regulation of glucocorticosteroid receptor expression in rat hippocampal cell cultures by nerve growth factor. Neurosci Lett 1996 0.77
123 Increased production of inositol phosphates and diacylglycerol in aged cognitively impaired rats after stimulation of muscarinic, metabotropic-glutamate and endothelin receptors. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1995 0.77
124 The beta-endorphin response to stress during postnatal development in the rat. Brain Res 1987 0.76
125 Phasic hyperactivity of the HPA axis resulting from chronic central IL-2 administration. Neuroreport 1996 0.76
126 Sex differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responding to endotoxin challenge in the neonate: reversal by gonadectomy. Brain Res Dev Brain Res 1994 0.76
127 Antidepressants restore hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal feedback function in aged, cognitively-impaired rats. Neurobiol Aging 1997 0.76
128 Androgen binding sites in human temporal cortex. Neuroendocrinology 1990 0.76
129 The effects of prostaglandin E2 injected into the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus on brown adipose tissue thermogenesis in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Brain Res 1993 0.76
130 Differential activation of the pituitary-adrenocortical axis after stress in the rat: use of two genetically selected lines (Roman low- and high-avoidance rats) as a model. J Endocrinol 1989 0.75
131 Relationship of social support to [3H]imipramine binding during and after examination stress. J Psychiatry Neurosci 1993 0.75
132 Molybdate stabilizes soluble [3H]dexamethasone binding sites in rat brain tissue in incubations at room temperature (22 degrees C). Brain Res 1986 0.75
133 Aldosterone modulates glucocorticoid receptor binding in hippocampal cell cultures via the mineralocorticoid receptor. Brain Res 1994 0.75
134 Hippocampal cell death. Science 1996 0.75
135 Changes in vasoactive intestinal Peptide binding site densities in the female rat central nervous system and pituitary during lactation. J Neuroendocrinol 1992 0.75
136 Neurotrophin receptor and tyrosine hydroxylase gene expression in aged sympathetic neurons. Neurobiol Aging 1997 0.75
137 Glucocorticoid receptors in bovine adrenal medullary cells in culture: regulation by cyclic nucleotides. Neuroscience 1993 0.75
138 Effect of amygdala kindling on emotional behavior and benzodiazepine receptor binding in rats. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1999 0.75
139 Postmortem decay in glucocorticoid binding in human and primate brain. Brain Res 1988 0.75
140 Entorhinal cortex lesions transiently alter glucocorticoid but not mineralocorticoid receptor gene expression in the rat hippocampus. J Neurochem 1993 0.75
141 Differential effects of testosterone metabolites in the neonatal period on open-field behavior and lordosis in the rat. Horm Behav 1979 0.75
142 Alterations in central catecholamines associated with immune responding in adult and aged mice. Brain Res 1994 0.75
143 Regulation of the adrenomedullary catecholaminergic system after mild, acute stress. Am J Physiol 1994 0.75