Maternal stress as a signal to the fetus

Prenatal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 116-120

  Hobel, C J ^a,c   Dunkel Schetter, C ^b   Roesch, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Fetal maturation; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342423335     PISSN: 13598635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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