Effects of low and high protein:carbohydrate ratios in the diet of pregnant gilts on maternal cortisol concentrations and the adrenocortical and sympathoadrenal reactivity in their offspring1,2

High-protein–low-carbohydrate diet during pregnancy alters maternal plasma amino acid concentration and placental amino acid extraction but not fetal plasma amino acids in pigs

(2012) Barbara U. Metzler-Zebeli et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

High and Low Protein∶ Carbohydrate Dietary Ratios during Gestation Alter Maternal-Fetal Cortisol Regulation in Pigs

(2012) Ellen Kanitz et al.   PLoS One

Limited and excess protein intake of pregnant gilts differently affects body composition and cellularity of skeletal muscle and subcutaneous adipose tissue of newborn and weanling piglets

(2011) Charlotte Rehfeldt et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Maternal Perinatal Undernutrition has Long-Term Consequences on Morphology, Function and Gene Expression of the Adrenal Medulla in the Adult Male Rat

(2011) C. Laborie et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Limited and excess dietary protein during gestation affects growth and compositional traits in gilts and impairs offspring fetal growth1,2

(2010) C. Rehfeldt et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

Maternal social stress during late pregnancy affects hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function and brain neurotransmitter systems in pig offspring

(2009) W. Otten et al.   DOMESTIC ANIMAL ENDOCRINOLOGY

Maternal Perinatal Undernutrition Alters Postnatal Development of Chromaffin Cells in the Male Rat Adrenal Medulla

(2009) Olivier Molendi-Coste et al.   NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Convergent regulation of locus coeruleus activity as an adaptive response to stress

(2008) Rita J. Valentino et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY

Nutritional programming of disease: unravelling the mechanism

(2008) Simon C. Langley-Evans   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Noradrenergic modulation of arousal

(2007) Craig W. Berridge   BRAIN RESEARCH REVIEWS