Effects of repeated maternal stress on FOS expression in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of fetal rats

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
9425722	Neuroscience	2005	9 Pages	PDF

Abstract

These findings suggest that the fetal PVN shows no adaptation of Fos expression to repeated maternal stress, but great vulnerability to cell death, including apoptosis. In addition, stress-induced apoptosis may more easily occur in the fetal PVN in females than males.

Keywords

chronic restraint ssDNA Single-stranded DNA Prenatal stress Immobilization phosphate buffer analysis of variance ANOVA Sex difference Apoptosis Restraint PVN Cell death HPA paraventricular nucleus hematoxylin–eosin hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal