Late gestational maternal serum cortisol is inversely associated with fetal brain growth

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1085-1092

  Li, Jian ^a   Wang, Zi Neng ^a   Chen, You Peng ^a   Dong, Yun Peng ^b   Shuai, Han Lin ^a   Xiao, Xiao Min ^a   Reichetzeder, Christoph ^c,d   Hocher, Berthold ^a,c,d  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The Affiliated Hospital of Xiangnan college   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biparietal diameter; Brain development; Cortisol; Fetal programming; Head circumference; Maternal cortisol

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN GROWTH; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84862777692     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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