title: Effects of prenatal stress on the estrous cycle of female offspring as adults.
abstract: Stress during gestation significantly increased estrous cycle length in female offspring as adults, primarily by lengthening the estrus-metestrus stage. Therefore, prenatal stress may disturb the hormonal milieu of the female fetus during a critical hypothalamic differentiation stage.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004971:Estrus; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011270:Pregnancy, Animal; D051381:Rats; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000503:physiopathology*