Elevated corticosterone levels in stomach milk, serum, and brain of male and female offspring after maternal corticosterone treatment in the rat

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 714-725

  Brummelte, Susanne ^a   Schmidt, Kim L ^a   Taves, Matthew D ^b   Soma, Kiran K ^a,b   Galea, Liisa A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Glucocorticoids; Lactation; Rats; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; SESAME SEED OIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; MATERNAL TREATMENT; MILK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; RAT; STOMACH;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MILK; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 77956530091     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20805     Document Type: Article

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