Review Effects of Postnatal Care in Epigenetic Structure of Rodents

This review summarizes the results of the previous studies examining the effectsof the postnatal care in rodents. The maternal care in rodents is based on licking and grooming (LG) and arched back nursing. The studies are primarily focused on the LG related behaviour in the adult rodents. The alterations related to maternal care were observed in the neurobiological, endocrine, and behavioural systems of the rodents. The general results, in which High-LG pups grew up healthier, indicate that licking and grooming by mother has positive impacts on the offspring. It is proven by cross-fostering methods that licking and grooming frequency is not genetically inherited. Understanding the importance of maternal care in rodents, likewise other mammalians, can draw us a route for the same for humans. The main purpose of this review paper is to depictthe significant results of the want of maternal care in rodents, and asserting the same importance in the same or different format for humans from rodents.