Differential effects of maternal stress on circulating levels of corticosterone, progesterone, and testosterone in male and female rat fetuses and their mothers

Endocrinology

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 1984, Pages 1635-1644

  Ward, Ingeborg L ^a,b   Weisz, Judith ^a,b  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FETUS; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; FETUS; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STRESS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0021326514     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo-114-5-1635     Document Type: Article

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