Cortisol awakening response in infants during the first six postnatal months and its relation to birth outcome

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 629-637

  Tegethoff, Marion ^a   Knierzinger, Nicole ^a   Meyer, Andrea H ^a   Meinlschmidt, Gunther ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c National Centre of Competence in Research   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Cortisol awakening response (CAR); Developmental programming; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis; Length of gestation; Newborns

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ARTICLE; CORTISOL AWAKENING RESPONSE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVA LEVEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AROUSAL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARTURITION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876077528     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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