Short- and long-term consequences of corticotropin-releasing factor in early development

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 897, Issue , 1999, Pages 76-91

  Hennessy, Michael B ^a   Davis, Harry N ^a   McCrea, Anne E ^b   Harvey, Anne T ^c   Williams, Michael T ^d  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SINCLAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c University of Kansas School of Medicine Wichita Psychiatric Research Institute   (United States)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; STRESS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0033375632     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07880.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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