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ArticleDevelopmental psychobiology2017

Maternal salivary testosterone in pregnancy and fetal neuromaturation.

Kristin M Voegtline, Kathleen A Costigan, Janet A DiPietro

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Article in Developmental psychobiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 authors.

Kristin M VoegtlineDepartment of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.ORCID 0000-0002-2938-7718
Kathleen A CostiganMaternal-Fetal Medicine Division, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Janet A DiPietroDepartment of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.

Funding

FETAL NEUROBEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT &POSTNATAL CONTINUITYR01HD027592 · NICHD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI DI PIETRO, JANET A. · 1996 to 2012
$3.9M
Organizational and activational effects of sex steroids on child self-regulationR00HD077058 · NICHD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI VOEGTLINE, KRISTIN M · 2016 to 2018
$723k
Organizational and activational effects of sex steroids on child self-regulationK99HD077058 · NICHD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI VOEGTLINE, KRISTIN M · 2014 to 2015
$253k
NICHD NIH HHS K99 HD077058NICHD NIH HHS R00 HD077058NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD027592
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Testosterone exposure during pregnancy has been hypothesized as a mechanism for sex differences in brain and behavioral development observed in the postnatal period. The current study documents the natural history of maternal salivary testosterone from 18 weeks gestation of pregnancy to 6 months postpartum, and investigates associations with fetal heart rate, motor activity, and their integration. Findings indicate maternal salivary testosterone increases with advancing gestation though no differences by fetal sex were detected. High intra-individual stability in prenatal testosterone levels extend into the postnatal period, particularly for pregnancies with male fetuses. With respect to fetal development, by 36 weeks gestation higher maternal prenatal salivary testosterone was significantly associated with faster fetal heart rate and less optimal somatic-cardiac integration. Measurement of testosterone in saliva is a useful tool for repeated-measures studies of hormonal concomitants of pregnancy. Moreover, higher maternal testosterone levels are associated with modest interference to fetal neurobehavioral development.

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AdultFemaleFetal MovementHeart Rate, FetalHumansLongitudinal StudiesPregnancySalivaTestosteroneTestosteronefetal heart ratefetal movementneuromaturationprenatal developmenttestosterone

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PMID28888054
PMCPMC5731831

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