Prenatal stress effects: are they mediated by reductions in maternal food and water intake and body weight gain?
Heat and restraint stress reduced maternal food and water intake as well as body weight gain in pregnant Rockland-Swiss (R-S) Albino mice. Because maternal undernutrition during pregnancy has been reported to disrupt sociosexual behavior in male and female rodent offspring, prenatal stress effects may be modulated, in part, by alterations in essential regulatory behaviors of pregnant animals.
D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight; D004326:Drinking; D004435:Eating; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D011247:Pregnancy; D011297:Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; D012733:Sex Differentiation; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications*