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Repeated variable prenatal stress alters pre‐ and postsynaptic gene expression in the rat frontal pole
26 Jun 2003
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Exposure of pregnant women to stress during a critical period of fetal brain development is an environmental risk factor for developing schizophrenia in the adult offspring. We have applied a repeated variable stress paradigm to pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats during the last week of gestation coinciding with the second trimester in human brain development. Here we report our findings from a microarray analysis of...
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