The placenta and neurodevelopment: Sex differences in prenatal vulnerability

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 459-464

  Bale, Tracy L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Early prenatal stress; Maternal stress; Neurodevelopmental disorder; O linked N acetylgluosamine transferase; Transplacental signal

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE TRANSFERASE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; MENTAL DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PRENATAL STRESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STEROIDOGENESIS; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER; ANIMAL; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85013020793     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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