Exposure to chronic pregnancy stress reverses peripartum-associated adaptations: Implications for postpartum anxiety and mood disorders

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3930-3940

  Hillerer, Katharina M ^a   Reber, Stefan O ^a   Neumann, Inga D ^a   Slattery, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; IMIPRAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; LACTATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUERPERAL PSYCHOSIS; RAT; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; LACTATION; MOOD DISORDERS; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80053147821     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-1091     Document Type: Article

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