Maternal stress during pregnancy causes sex-specific alterations in offspring memory performance, social interactions, indices of anxiety, and body mass

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 340-347

  Schulz, Kalynn M ^a   Pearson, Jennifer N ^a,b   Neeley, Eric W ^a   Berger, Ralph ^a   Leonard, Sherry ^a,b   Adams, Catherine E ^a,b   Stevens, Karen E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Veterans Affairs Medical Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Body weight; Context; Development; Environment; Gender; Gestation; Hippocampus; Maternal; Medial temporal lobe; Memory; Novel object; Obesity; Prenatal; Psychopathology; Sex differences; Social behavior; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SNIFFING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79958824084     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.02.021     Document Type: Article

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