Publication Date:
1979-11-30
Description:
Female rats subjected to prenatal stress later experienced fewer conceptions, more spontaneous abortions and vaginal hemorrhaging, longer pregnancies, and fewer viable young than nonstressed rats. The offspring of the prenatally stressed rats were lighter in weight and less likely to survive the neonatal period. Prenatal stress may influence the balance of adrenal and gonadal hormones during a critical stage of fetal hypothalamic differentiation, thereby producing a variety of reproductive dysfunctions in adulthood.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Herrenkohl, L R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1979 Nov 30;206(4422):1097-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/573923" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Disorders of Sex Development/etiology
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Female
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Gestational Age
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Humans
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Infertility, Female/*etiology
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Lighting
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Litter Size
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Maternal Behavior
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Pregnancy
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Rats
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Reproduction
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Stress, Psychological/*complications
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics