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Cortisol-treated zebrafish embryos develop into pro-inflammatory adults with aberrant immune gene regulation
21 Jul 2016
Abstract excerpt
Chronic early-life stress increases adult susceptibility to numerous health problems linked to chronic inflammation. One way that this may occur is via glucocorticoid-induced developmental programming. To gain insight into such programming we treated zebrafish embryos with cortisol and examined the effects on both larvae and adults. Treated larvae had elevated whole-body cortisol and glucocorticoid signaling, and...
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