Maternal corticotropin-releasing hormone and habituation in the human fetus

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 163-173

  Sandman, Curt A ^a,d   Wadhwa, Pathik D ^b   Chicz DeMet, Aleksandra ^a   Porto, Manuel ^c   Garite, Thomas J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

CRH; Fetal heart rate; Human fetus; Learning; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; PREGNANCY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 0032945651     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199904)34:3<163::AID-DEV1>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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