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Horm Metab Res 2012; 44(08): 592-597
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1316326
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Environmental Influences that Alter the Stress Circuitry

N. Ismail   *
1   Center for Neuroendocrine Studies and Neuroscience and Behavior Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
,
R. Sotomayor-Zárate   *
2   Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
3   Millennium Science Nucleus in Stress and Addiction, Departmento de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
,
T. L. Bale
4   Neuroscience Center, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
,
J. D. Blaustein
1   Center for Neuroendocrine Studies and Neuroscience and Behavior Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
,
K. Gysling
3   Millennium Science Nucleus in Stress and Addiction, Departmento de Biología Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
,
K.L. K. Tamashiro
5   Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Publication History

received 22 December 2011

accepted 25 May 2012

Publication Date:
06 July 2012 (online)

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Key words

prenatal period - puberty - stress - sexual differentiation - metabolism - gene expression
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*  These 2 authors contributed equally to this work.


 

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