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Tactile and Nutritional Aspects of Maternal Care: Specific Regulators of Neuroendocrine Function and Cellular Development

Schanberg, S. M., Evoniuk, G., Kuhn, C. M.·1984·Experimental Biology and Medicine
DOI 10.3181/00379727-175-41779
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Development in mammals is influenced profoundly by many environmental stimuli, and those provided by the mother are the most critical for survival and growth. Disruption of the mother-infant relationship elicits marked behavioral and physiological responses in the offspring ranging from transient changes in body temperature, heart rate, and locomotor activity following short periods of separation, to marked retardation of growth and behavioral development following more long-term separation (1-4). A growing body of evidence demonstrates that extremely specific sensory cues from the mother regulate different physiological and behavioral responses in young animals. For example, nipple attachment in rats is promoted by specific organic substances on the ventral surface of the mother, and thermal input from the mother modulates locomotor activity in weanling-age rat pups, while compounds secreted by the mother's GI tract “orient” pups to the nest (5-8). Studies in this laboratory recently have shown that mother-pup interactions also have marked effects on biochemical processes in the developing pup. These biochemical processes, like behavior, respond to extremely specific environmental cues. The findings of our studies, which are described in the following review, have shown that mother-pup interactions seem to be important regulators of physiologic as well as behavioral function. We have found that sensory stimuli associated with the mother elicit coordinated physiological and biochemical responses which vary with the nature of the stimulus. While some environmental stimuli are important regulators of growth and development, others subserve quite different functions, like maintaining tissue sensitivity to specific hormones. The first group of studies we wish to discuss are those demonstrating that active tactile stimulation of preweanling pups by the mother provides specific sensory cues that maintain normal growth and development. The data that will be discussed demonstrate that restriction of active tactile interaction between mother and pup produces at least three different abnormalities in biochemical processes involved in growth and development.

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Authors
Schanberg, S. M., Evoniuk, G., & Kuhn, C. M.
Venue
Experimental Biology and Medicine
Publisher
Frontiers Media SA
Published
1984-02-01
Volume
175
Issue
2
Pages
135-146
ISSN
  • 0071-3384 (ISSN-L)
  • 1535-3702
  • 1535-3699
DOI
10.3181/00379727-175-41779
OpenAlex
W2321650289
Cited by
169
References
0
Citations by year
2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 9
FWCI
9.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Experimental Biology and Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
Keywords
maternal care, mother-pup interaction, tactile stimulation, neonatal growth, developmental programming, neuroendocrine function, cell development, sensory cues, maternal separation, hormone sensitivity, weanling rats
MeSH terms
Aging, Animals, Animals, Newborn, Dietary Carbohydrates, Endocrine Glands, Enzyme Induction, Food, Food Deprivation, Glucose, Liver, Maternal Behavior, Maternal Deprivation, Nervous System Physiological Phenomena, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Ornithine Decarboxylase, Pituitary Gland, Anterior, Growth Hormone, Stress, Physiological, Sympathomimetics, Touch, Rats

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