Prenatal stress and immunocompetence in later life

Developmental Brain Dysfunction

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 445-461

  Bakker, Joost M ^a,b   Van Rees, Emmelien P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b University Hospital Children Youth   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

HPA axis; Immune response; Ontogeny; Pregnancy; Prenatal; Stress

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 4; KEYHOLE LIMPET HEMOCYANIN; MIFEPRISTONE; TRANSCORTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MEMORY CELL; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; RAT; REVIEW; STRESS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0031545223     PISSN: 10195815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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