Effects of prenatal stress on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function over two generations of guinea pigs (Cavia aperea f. porcellus)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-27

  Schöpper, Hanna ^a   Palme, Rupert ^a   Ruf, Thomas ^a   Huber, Susanne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Challenge test; Cortisol; Developmental programming; Puberty; Stress; Transgenerational

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAVIA APEREA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME REGULATION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX DIFFERENCE; WEANING;

EID: 84857122931     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.12.010     Document Type: Article

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