Prenatal excess glucocorticoid exposure and adult affective disorders: A role for serotonergic and catecholamine pathways

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-55

  Wyrwoll, Caitlin S ^a   Holmes, Megan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

11 HSD2; Anxiety; Depression; Developmental programming; Dopamine; Glucocorticoid; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; 3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; HYDROCORTISONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANXIETY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEPRESSION; DNA MODIFICATION; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MOOD DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; STRESS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOOD DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RISK FACTORS; SEROTONIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84859811122     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000331345     Document Type: Review

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