Sex-specific effects of prenatal stress on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to stress and brain glucocorticoid receptor density in adult rats

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 55-61

  McCormick, Cheryl M ^a,b   Smythe, James W ^b   Sharma, Shakti ^b   Meaney, Michael J ^b  

^a BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropin; Corticosterone; Corticosterone binding globulin; Glucocorticoid receptors; Prenatal stress; Sex differences; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0028820942     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-3806(94)00153-Q     Document Type: Article

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