Alterations in glucocorticoid negative feedback following maternal Pb, prenatal stress and the combination: A potential biological unifying mechanism for their corresponding disease profiles

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 117-127

  Rossi George, A ^b   Virgolini, M B ^b   Weston, D ^a   Cory Slechta, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Dexamethasone suppression; Gender; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Lead; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; LEAD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LEAD BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRENATAL STRESS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LEAD; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS;

EID: 57249088902     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2008.10.003     Document Type: Article

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