Fetal programming of autonomic and HPA function: Do people who were small babies have enhanced stress responses?

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 572, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 45-50

  Phillips, David I W ^a   Jones, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; LIPID;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROENDOCRINE DISEASE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRESS; ARTICLE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; STRESS;

EID: 33645324698     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.104695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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