Prepartum chronic ultramild stress increases corticosterone and estradiol levels in gestating mice: Implications for postpartum depressive disorders

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 123-130

  Misdrahi, David ^a,c   Pardon, Marie Christine ^a,d   Pérez Diaz, Fernando ^a   Hanoun, Naima ^b   Cohen Salmon, Charles ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER CHARLES PERRENS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Estradiol; Mice; Pregnancy; Steroids; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LITTER SIZE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; STRESS;

EID: 27644475486     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.07.020     Document Type: Article

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