Prenatal stress, glucocorticoids and the programming of adult disease
Numerous clinical studies associate an adverse prenatal environment with the development of cardio-metabolic disorders and neuroendocrine dysfunction, as well as an increased risk of psychiatric diseases in later life. Experimentally, prenatal exposure to stress or excess glucocorticoids in a varie...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2009-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.08.019.2009/full |