Voluntary exercise in pregnant rats positively influences fetal growth without initiating a maternal physiological stress response

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 300, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Rosa, Brielle V ^a   Firth, Elwyn C ^a   Blair, Hugh T ^a   Vickers, Mark H ^b   Morel, Patrick C H ^c  

^a National Research Centre for Growth and Development   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bone; Developmental origins of health and disease; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CLIMBING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MATERNAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; CORTICOSTERONE; FECES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 79955783575     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00683.2010     Document Type: Article

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