Prenatal stress does not alter innate novelty-seeking behavioral traits, but differentially affects individual differences in neuroendocrine stress responsivity

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 162-177

  Clinton, Sarah ^a   Miller, Sue ^a   Watson, Stanley J ^a   Akil, Huda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Corticosterone; Elevated plus maze; High responder (HR); Low responder (LR); Open field

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CORTICOSTERONE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 38349158721     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2007.10.012     Document Type: Article

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