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5α-Reduced neurosteroids sex-dependently reverse central prenatal programming of neuroendocrine stress responses in rats

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Allopregnanolone and induction of endogenous opioid inhibition of oxytocin responses to immune stress in pregnant rats.

scientific article published in April 2012

Allopregnanolone and suppressed hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis stress responses in late pregnancy in the rat.

scientific article published on 28 July 2010

Allopregnanolone in the brain: protecting pregnancy and birth outcomes.

scientific article published on 04 September 2013

Antenatal dexamethasone treatment transiently alters diastolic function in the mouse fetal heart.

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Attenuated hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to immune challenge during pregnancy: the neurosteroid opioid connection

scientific article published on 8 November 2007

CRF-R1 activation in the anterior-dorsal BNST induces maternal neglect in lactating rats via an HPA axis-independent central mechanism

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Central opioid inhibition of neuroendocrine stress responses in pregnancy in the rat is induced by the neurosteroid allopregnanolone

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Circulating secretin activates supraoptic nucleus oxytocin and vasopressin neurons via noradrenergic pathways in the rat.

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Control of neurohypophysial hormone secretion, blood osmolality and volume in pregnancy.

scientific article published on December 2008

Effects of maternal exposure to social stress during pregnancy: consequences for mother and offspring.

scientific article published on October 2013

Effects of prenatal stress on neuroactive steroid responses to acute stress in adult male and female rats

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Endocrine induced changes in brain function during pregnancy

scientific article published on 22 September 2010

Endogenous opioids and attenuated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to immune challenge in pregnant rats.

scientific article published in May 2005

Giving a good start to a new life via maternal brain allostatic adaptations in pregnancy

scientific article published on 22 February 2019

Hypoactivation of CRF receptors, predominantly type 2, in the medial-posterior BNST is vital for adequate maternal behavior in lactating rats

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Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis hyporesponsiveness to restraint stress in mice deficient for large-conductance calcium- and voltage-activated potassium (BK) channels

scientific article published on 26 July 2007

Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses to centrally administered orexin-A are suppressed in pregnant rats.

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Immune stress in late pregnant rats decreases length of gestation and fecundity, and alters later cognitive and affective behaviour of surviving pre-adolescent offspring ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

Inhibition of 5α‐Reductase Activity in Late Pregnancy Decreases Gestational Length and Fecundity and Impairs Object Memory and Central Progestogen Milieu of Juvenile Rat Offspring ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

Maternal stress and the MPOA: Activation of CRF receptor 1 impairs maternal behavior and triggers local oxytocin release in lactating rats.

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Neuroactive steroids and stress axis regulation: Pregnancy and beyond

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Neuroactive steroids attenuate oxytocin stress responses in late pregnancy.

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Neuroendocrine control of maternal stress responses and fetal programming by stress in pregnancy

scientific article published on 06 January 2011

Neuroendocrine responses to stress in mice: hyporesponsiveness in pregnancy and parturition.

scientific article published on 4 September 2003

Neuroendocrine stress but not feeding responses to centrally administered neuropeptide Y are suppressed in pregnant rats

scientific article published on 4 May 2006

Neuroimmunology of the female brain across the lifespan: Plasticity to psychopathology

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Neurosteroids and early-life programming: An updated perspective

scientific article published in 2022

Neurosteroids for a successful pregnancy

scientific article published in January 2011

Oxytocinase in the female rat hypothalamus: a novel mechanism controlling oxytocin neurones during lactation.

scientific article published in April 2014

Parenthood and Changing Brains ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

Phospholipase D-mediated hypersensitivity at central synapses is associated with abnormal behaviours and pain sensitivity in rats exposed to prenatal stress ⬇️

scientific article published on August 8, 2013

Prenatal social stress in the rat programmes neuroendocrine and behavioural responses to stress in the adult offspring: sex-specific effects.

scientific article published on 27 January 2010

Prenatal stress produces anxiety prone female offspring and impaired maternal behaviour in the domestic pig.

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Prenatal stress programs neuroendocrine stress responses and affective behaviors in second generation rats in a sex-dependent manner

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Programming the brain and behaviour by early-life stress: a focus on neuroactive steroids

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Proteomic profiling of neuronal mitochondria reveals modulators of synaptic architecture.

scientific article published on 27 October 2017

Rapid estradiol-17beta modulation of opioid actions on the electrical and secretory activity of rat oxytocin neurons in vivo

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Reduced hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis stress responses in late pregnancy: central opioid inhibition and noradrenergic mechanisms

scientific article published on December 2008

Release of oxytocin in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus, but not central amygdala or lateral septum in lactating residents and virgin intruders during maternal defence

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Resetting the dynamic range of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis stress responses through pregnancy.

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Sex differences in prenatally programmed anxiety behaviour in rats: differential corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor mRNA expression in the amygdaloid complex.

scientific article published on 19 August 2011

Sex, stress and steroids

scientific article published on 08 November 2019

Sex-Dependent Effects of Prenatal Stress on Social Memory in Rats: A Role for Differential Expression of Central Vasopressin-1a Receptors.

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Sex-dependent changes in neuroactive steroid concentrations in the rat brain following acute swim stress

scholarly article by Ying Sze et al published 8 September 2018 in Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Sex-specific effects of prenatal stress on glucose homoeostasis and peripheral metabolism in rats.

scientific article published on 15 April 2013

Sex-specific prenatal stress effects on the rat reproductive axis and adrenal gland structure.

scientific article published on 29 March 2016

Stress, brains and bairns: reviews from the 4th International Conference on the Parental Brain.

scientific article published in November 2011

Suppressed oxytocin neuron responses to immune challenge in late pregnant rats: a role for endogenous opioids

scientific article published in March 2006

The consequences of early-life adversity: neurobiological, behavioural and epigenetic adaptations.

scientific article published on October 2014

The expectant brain: adapting for motherhood.

scientific article published on January 2008

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