Prenatal alcohol exposure increases vulnerability to stress and anxiety-like disorders in adulthood

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1144, Issue , 2008, Pages 154-175

  Hellemans, Kim G C ^a   Verma, Pamela ^c   Yoon, Esther ^b   Yu, Wayne ^b   Weinberg, Joanne ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Anxiety; Behavior; Chronic mild stress; Early adversity; Elevated plus maze; Fetal programming; HPA axis; HPG axis; Prenatal alcohol exposure; Sex differences; Sprague Dawley

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; GROOMING; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE; MATURITY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; REARING; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 56649120669     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1418.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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