Timing of fetal exposure to stress hormones: Effects on newborn physical and neuromuscular maturation

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 232-241

  Ellman, Lauren M ^a   Schetter, Christine Dunkel ^b   Hobel, Calvin J ^c   Chicz DeMet, Aleksandra ^d   Glynn, Laura M ^d   Sandman, Curt A ^d  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortisol; CRH; Fetal; Fetus; HPA axis; Human; Infant; New Ballard Maturation Score; Pregnancy; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; STRESS HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM; NEWBORN; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SCORING SYSTEM; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 41949109828     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20293     Document Type: Article

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