Baby on board: Do responses to stress in the maternal brain mediate adverse pregnancy outcome?

Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 359-376

  Douglas, Alison J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CRH; Cytokines; Dopamine; Glucocorticoids; HCG; Pregnancy failure; Preterm labor; Progesterone; Prolactin; Stress

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GONADOTROPIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OXYTOCIN; PLACENTA LACTOGEN; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DECIDUALIZATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL STRESS; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE RELEASE; REVIEW; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; FEMALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MOTHER; NEUROSECRETION; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHERS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77955056841     PISSN: 00913022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2010.05.002     Document Type: Review

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