Prenatal stress elicits regionally selective changes in basal FGF-2 gene expression in adulthood and alters the adult response to acute or chronic stress

Exposure to stress during pregnancy influences the trajectory of brain development resulting in permanent alterations that may contribute to increased susceptibility to subsequent cognitive or neuropsychiatric disorders. In this manuscript, we examined the effects of prenatal stress on the expressio...

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Main Authors: Fabio Fumagalli, Francesco Bedogni, Theodore A. Slotkin, Giorgio Racagni, Marco Andrea Riva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2005-12-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996105001427