The relation between pregnancy and stress in rats: Considering corticosterone level, hippocampal caspase-3 and MAPK activation

European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 199-203

  Moosavi, Maryam ^a   Ghasemi, Rasoul ^a,b   Maghsoudi, Nader ^b   Rastegar, Karim ^a   Zarifkar, Asadollah ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Hippocampus; Pregnancy; Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CORTICOSTERONE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MATERNAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 80053564091     PISSN: 03012115     EISSN: 18727654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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