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Social dominance predicts hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor recruitment and resilience to prenatal adversity
19 Jun 2018
Abstract excerpt
The developing fetus is highly sensitive to prenatal stress, which may alter Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis programming and increase the risk of behavioral disorders. There is high variability among the human population, wherein many offspring of stressed pregnancies display resilience to adversity, while the remainder displays vulnerability. In order to identify biological substrates mediating between...
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