Developmental fluoxetine exposure and prenatal stress alter sexual differentiation of the brain and reproductive behavior in male rat offspring

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1618-1629

  Rayen, Ine ^a   Steinbusch, Harry W M ^a   Charlier, Thierry D ^b,c   Pawluski, Jodi L ^a,b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidepressant medication; Depression; Development; Hypothalamus; Maternal depression; Prenatal stress; Reproduction; Sexual differentiation; SSRI

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FLUOXETINE; TESTOSTERONE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOGENITAL DISTANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EXPOSURE; EJACULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LACTATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MARE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL STRESS; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANTIDEPRESSANT MEDICATION; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; MATERNAL DEPRESSION; PRENATAL STRESS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DIFFERENTIATION; SSRI;

ANAL CANAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EJACULATION; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; GENITALIA, MALE; MALE; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84883655734     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.01.007     Document Type: Article

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