Maternal stress, glucocorticoids, and the maternal/fetal match hypothesis

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 485-487

  Breuner, Creagh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal programming; Glucocorticoids; Maternal stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CHICK; EGG PRODUCTION; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; GUINEA PIG; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; MATERNAL STRESS; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SURVIVAL;

EID: 49849088311     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.05.013     Document Type: Note

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