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TopicThe bed nucleus of striaterminalis and the amygdala as targets of antenatal glucocorticoids: implications for fear and anxiety responses.
Contributors
Oliveira M, Rodrigues AJ, Leão P, Cardona D, Pêgo JM, Sousa N.
CONCLUSIONS:
Altogether, our results show that in utero DEX exposure can modulate anxiety and fear behaviour in parallel with significant morphological, neurochemical and molecular changes; importantly, GCs seem to differentially affect distinct brain regions involved in this type of behaviours.
PMID:21935638
[PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
LINK – Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2012 Apr;220(3):443-53. doi: 10.1007/s00213-011-2494-y. Epub 2011 Sep 21.