Prenatal stress increases corticosterone levels in offspring by impairing placental glucocorticoid barrier function

• Can Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Can Liu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, Key Laboratory of Environmental Factors and Chronic Disease Control, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China

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• Hongya Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China, School of Public Health, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China

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• Hongyu Li,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, Key Laboratory of Environmental Factors and Chronic Disease Control, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China

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• Deguang Yang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, Key Laboratory of Environmental Factors and Chronic Disease Control, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China

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• Ye Li,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, Key Laboratory of Environmental Factors and Chronic Disease Control, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China

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• Rui Wang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, Key Laboratory of Environmental Factors and Chronic Disease Control, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China

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• Jiashu Zhu,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, Key Laboratory of Environmental Factors and Chronic Disease Control, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China

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• Shuqin Ma,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China

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• Suzhen Guan

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: guansz_nx2017@sina.com

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, Key Laboratory of Environmental Factors and Chronic Disease Control, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China

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