Open AccessMale fetus susceptibility to maternal inflammation: C-reactive protein and brain development
Author(s) -
Sharon K. Hunter,
M. Camille Hoffman,
Angelo D’Alessandro,
Kate Noonan,
Anna Wyrwa,
Robert Freedman,
Amanda J. Law
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.857
H-Index - 209
eISSN - 1469-8978
pISSN - 0033-2917
DOI - 10.1017/s0033291719003313
Subject(s) - offspring , fetus , pregnancy , medicine , inflammation , gestation , physiology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , endocrinology , psychiatry , biology , genetics
Maternal inflammation in early pregnancy has been identified epidemiologically as a prenatal pathogenic factor for the offspring's later mental illness. Early newborn manifestations of the effects of maternal inflammation on human fetal brain development are largely unknown.