Prenatal stress-induced increases in placental inflammation and offspring hyperactivity are male-specific and ameliorated by maternal antiinflammatory treatment

Endocrinology

Volumn 155, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2635-2646

  Bronson, Stefanie L ^a   Bale, Tracy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; ENDOTHELIN 1; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY 2 CLASS II ANTIGEN E BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PADGEM PROTEIN; PROSTAGLANDIN ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASE 2; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE RECEPTOR C; RANTES; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS RESORPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERACTIVITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE GENE; LITTER SIZE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OFFSPRING HYPERACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTAL INFLAMMATION; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SENSORY GATING; SEX RATIO; SPATIAL LEARNING; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84903287131     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2014-1040     Document Type: Article

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