Minireview: Transgenerational inheritance of the stress response: A new frontier in stress research

Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-13

  Matthews, Stephen G ^a   Phillips, David I W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANXIETY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FETUS HYPOXIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GUINEA PIG; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INHERITANCE; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MATERNAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SHORT SURVEY; STRESS; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RESEARCH; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 73649121301     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-0916     Document Type: Short Survey

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