Comparative effects of a prenatal stress occurring during early or late gestation on pig immune response

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 498-504

  Couret, David ^a,b   Prunier, Armelle ^a,b   Mounier, Anne Marie ^a,b   Thomas, Françoise ^a,b   Oswald, Isabelle P ^a   Merlot, Elodie ^a,b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Immune response; LPS; Lymphocyte proliferation; Pig; Prenatal stress; Stage of gestation

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MITOGENIC AGENT; OVALBUMIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GILT (SWINE); HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STRESS; SPLEEN; THYMUS;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; OVALBUMIN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWINE; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 70149094296     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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