Effects of Prenatal Social Stress on Offspring Development
Effects of Prenatal Social Stress on Offspring Development
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产前社会压力对后代发育的影响
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2009
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N. Sachser
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作者：
S. Kaiser;N. Sachser
在非人类哺乳动物中，怀孕雌性生活的社会环境对其后代的大脑发育、内分泌状态以及以后的社会和性行为至关重要。怀孕期间的社会不稳定通常会导致女儿的行为和神经内分泌男性化，而儿子的男性特征表达不太明显。我们支持这样的假设，即产前社会压力的行为影响不一定是不良社会条件的“病理”（非适应性）后果。相反，怀孕的母亲可能会以一种适应性的方式让她们的后代适应环境。
In nonhuman mammals, the social environment in which pregnant females live is critical for their offsprings' brain development, endocrine state, and social and sexual behavior later in life. Social instability during pregnancy generally brings about a behavioral and neuroendocrine masculinization in daughters and a less pronounced expression of male-typical traits in sons. We favor the hypothesis that such behavioral effects of prenatal social stress are not necessarily “pathological” (nonadaptive) consequences of adverse social conditions. Rather, pregnant mothers could be adjusting their offspring to their environment in an adaptive way.