Short-term maternal psychological stress in the post-conception period in ewes affects fetal growth and gestation length

Reproduction

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 259-265

  Smith, Jennifer ^a   Ferguson, Drewe ^a   Jauregui, Guillermo ^b   Panarace, Martín ^b   Medina, Mariano ^b   Lehnert, Sigrid ^a   Hill, Jonathan R ^a,c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Goyaike SAACI y F Biotecnología Animal ^*  (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EWE; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; FOOD INTAKE; GESTATION PERIOD; LAMB; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL STRESS; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAM (SHEEP); SUPEROVULATION;

ANIMALS; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PLACENTAL INSUFFICIENCY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SHEEP; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 50249090091     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-07-0400     Document Type: Article

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