Effects of prenatal dexamethasone treatment on physical growth, pituitary-adrenal hormones, and performance of motor, motivational, and cognitive tasks in juvenile and adolescent common marmoset monkeys

Endocrinology

Volumn 149, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 6343-6355

  Hauser, Jonas ^a   Knapman, Alana ^a   Zürcher, Nicole R ^a   Pilloud, Sonia ^a   Maier, Claudia ^a   Diaz Heijtz, Rochellys ^b   Forssberg, Hans ^c   Dettling, Andrea ^a   Feldon, Joram ^a   Pryce, Christopher R ^a,d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GROWTH; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MARMOSET; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MOOD DISORDER; MOTIVATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CALLITHRIX; COGNITION; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PITUITARY HORMONES; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 57349113765     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-0615     Document Type: Article

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