Prenatal stress induces high anxiety and postnatal handling induces low anxiety in adult offspring: Correlation with stress-induced corticosterone secretion

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2626-2636

  Vallée, Monique ^a   Mayo, Willy ^a   Dellu, Françoise ^a   Moal, Michel Le ^a   Simon, Hervé ^a   Maccari, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

behavioral reactivity; corticosterone; escape behavior; exploratory behavior; memory performance; postnatal handling; prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

EID: 0030960905     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-07-02626.1997     Document Type: Article

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