Effects of prenatal stress on corticosteroid receptors and monoamine concentrations in limbic areas of suckling piglets (Sus scrofa) at different ages

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series A: Physiology Pathology Clinical Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 132-139

  Kanitz, E ^a   Otten, W ^a   Tuchscherer, M ^a   Manteuffel, G ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUS SCROFA; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

ADRENALIN; CORTICOTROPIN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DOPAMINE; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN; STEROID RECEPTOR; TRANSCORTIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SUCKLING; SWINE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWINE; TRANSCORTIN;

EID: 0038203191     PISSN: 0931184X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0442.2003.00513.x     Document Type: Article

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