Prenatal glucocorticoid programming of brain corticosteroid receptors and corticotrophin-releasing hormone: Possible implications for behaviour

Neuroscience

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 71-79

  Welberg, L A M ^a   Seckl, J R ^a   Holmes, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Birth weight; Dexamethasone; Prenatal stress; Rat

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID;

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GESTATIONAL AGE; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL STRESS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MOOD DISORDERS; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0035836457     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(01)00065-3     Document Type: Article

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