Prolonged stress-induced elevation in plasma corticosterone during pregnancy in the rat: Implications for prenatal stress studies

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 571-581

  Takahashi, Lorey K ^a   Turner, Joel G ^a   Kalin, Ned H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid binding globulin; Fetal hormones; Glucocorticoids; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal hormones; Pregnancy; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETUS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCORTIN;

EID: 0032144238     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(98)00024-9     Document Type: Article

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