Perinatal corticosteroid effect on amygdala and hippocampus volume during brain development in the rat model

Early Human Development

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 267-272

  Yossuck, P ^a   Kraszpulski, M ^a   Salm, A K ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenatal corticosteroid; Betamethasone; Limbic

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; NEWBORN; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BETAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33745613027     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2005.09.017     Document Type: Article

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