By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor | July 01, 2014 07:30pm ET
A mom's painful early life experiences might influence her offspring's sensitivity to pain, according to a new study of lambs and ewes.
The research is preliminary, but echoes earlier studies in both humans and animals that find early pain and trauma — or even chronic stress in utero — can reverberate throughout the lifetime.
"It adds to a bit of evidence of the effects of these early life experiences in the long-term," said study researcher Michael Mendl, a professor of veterinary science at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.
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