Maternal Separation

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
MS
Pronunciation
/məˈtərnəl ˌsɛpərˈeɪʃən/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. Objective : To investigate the effect of neonatal maternal separation on the locomotion activity in adult rats.
  2. It indicates that maternal separation can increase the neuronal apoptosis in hippocampus and dentate gyrus.
  3. It indicates that maternal deprivation can induce decreasing of cells in hippocampus and dentate gyrus, which suggests that hippocampus and dentate gyrus are damaged by maternal separation stress.
  4. It indicates that after experiencing maternal separation and social isolation stress, rats in maternal deprivation group appear anxiety-like and / or depression-like behavior at the same time.
  5. The Effect of Venlafaxine on visceral hyperalgesia in neonatal maternal separation IBS rat models

Other meanings of MS