Alcohol and pregnancy: Effects on maternal care, HPA axis function, and hippocampal neurogenesis in adult females

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2015, Pages 37-50

  Workman, Joanna L ^a,c   Raineki, Charlis ^a   Weinberg, Joanne ^a,b   Galea, Liisa A M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Corticosterone; Doublecortin; Maternal behavior; Postpartum; Reproductive experience

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ALCOHOL; DOUBLECORTIN PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN REGION; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DENTATE GYRUS; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MITOSIS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NULLIPARA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; RAT; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECTS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METABOLISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84929331902     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.03.001     Document Type: Article

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