"Green odor" inhalation by stressed rat dams reduces behavioral and neuroendocrine signs of prenatal stress in the offspring

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 264-272

  Fujita, Sayaka ^a   Ueki, Shiori ^a   Miyoshi, Michio ^a   Watanabe, Tatsuo ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ACTH; Adoption; Corticosterone; Immobility time; Maternal behavior; Paraventricular nucleus

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS; 2-HEXENAL; 3-HEXEN-1-OL; ALDEHYDE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; HEXANOL; PROTEIN C FOS; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; EXERCISE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZATION; WISTAR RAT;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ALDEHYDES; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEXANOLS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77953345586     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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