Effects of prenatal stress on the activity of an enzyme involved in neurosteroid synthesis during the "Critical Period" of sexual differentiation of the brain in male rats

Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 931-935

  Ordyan, N E ^a   Pivina, S G ^a  

^a PAVLOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

5 reductase; Neurosteroids; Prenatal stress; Sex hormones; Sexual differentiation of the brain

Indexed keywords

ISOENZYME; NEUROSTEROID; PROGESTERONE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PROGENY; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANDROSTENOLS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CHOLESTENONE 5 ALPHA-REDUCTASE; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STRESS;

EID: 28144462220     PISSN: 00970549     EISSN: 1573899X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11055-005-0148-4     Document Type: Article

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