Chronic maternal stress affects growth, behaviour and hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal function in juvenile offspring

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 514-520

  Emack, Jeff ^a,b   Kostaki, Alice ^a,b   Walker, Claire Dominique ^a,c   Matthews, Stephen G ^a,b  

^a CIHR program in Maternal Adversity Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Guinea pigs; Hypothalamo pituitary adrenal axis; Locomotor activity; Prenatal stress; Programming

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY GROWTH; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SALIVA LEVEL; WEANING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; GUINEA PIGS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SALIVA; STRESS;

EID: 50049129101     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.02.025     Document Type: Article

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