Prenatal stress and postnatal androgen: effects on reproduction in female rats.
Heat-resistant stress applied to pregnant rats during the last trimester disrupts oestrus cycles in female offspring and alters adrenal, ovarian and uterine weights at autopsy. Sexual receptivity is left intact. Prenatal stress may operate by increasing exposure of fetal females to androgens in utero.
D000311:Adrenal Glands / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn / Q000502:physiology*; D004971:Estrus; D005260:Female; D009929:Organ Size / Q000187:drug effects; D010053:Ovary / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011297:Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012098:Reproduction / Q000187:drug effects*; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal / Q000187:drug effects; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013739:Testosterone / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014599:Uterus / Q000033:anatomy & histology
D013739:Testosterone