Prenatal stress programs neuroendocrine stress responses and affective behaviors in second generation rats in a sex-dependent manner

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2015, Pages 204-216

  Grundwald, Natalia J ^a   Brunton, Paula J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Glucocorticoids; HPA axis; Prenatal stress; Sex differences; Trans generational

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; GLUCOCORTICOID; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIESTRUS; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FORCED SWIM TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; METESTRUS; NEUROENDOCRINE STRESS RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STRESS; STRESS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GENETICS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84947428486     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.08.010     Document Type: Article

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