Glucocorticoids, prenatal stress and the programming of disease

2010/06/21 by Anjanette Harris, Jonathan R. Seckl, Jonathan Seckl · 879 citations
Medicine · Neuroscience · #Anxiety #Biology #Birth, Development, and Health #DNA methylation #Disease #Endocrinology #Epigenetics #Epigenome #Gene #Gene expression #Genetics #Glucocorticoid #Glucocorticoid receptor #Internal medicine #Medicine #Neonatal Respiratory Health Research #Offspring #Pregnancy #Prenatal stress #Psychiatry #Stress Responses and Cortisol

paper · doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.06.007

published in Hormones and Behavior 59(3), 279-289 (Elsevier BV)

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