Immune stress in late pregnant rats decreases length of gestation and fecundity, and alters later cognitive and affective behaviour of surviving pre-adolescent offspring

Stress

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 652-664

  Paris, Jason J ^a   Brunton, Paula J ^b,c   Russell, John A ^b   Frye, Cheryl A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cognition; Cytokine; Open field; Prenatal stress; Progestin

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

AFFECTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GESTATION PERIOD; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 80054055686     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2011.628719     Document Type: Article

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