Maternal exercise during pregnancy prevents neurocognitive impairments in the juvenile offspring induced by prenatal stress

C Bustamante, C Ancatén, C Gutiérrez-Rojas… - … , Psychiatry and Brain …, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose Maternal exercise has shown beneficial effects on maternal/foetal health; however,
the effects of maternal exercise on neurocognitive development in prenatally stressed …

[HTML][HTML] Exercise before pregnancy exerts protective effect on prenatal stress-induced impairment of memory, neurogenesis, and mitochondrial function in offspring

TW Kim, SS Park, SH Kim, MK Kim… - Journal of Exercise …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Stress during pregnancy has a negative effect on the fetus. However, maternal exercise has
a positive effect on the cognitive function of the fetus and alleviates the negative effects of …

Maternal exercise during pregnancy ameliorates the postnatal neuronal impairments induced by prenatal restraint stress in mice

C Bustamante, R Henríquez, F Medina… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Clinical and preclinical studies have demonstrated that prenatal stress (PS) induces
neuronal and behavioral disturbances in the offspring. In the present study, we determined …

Maternal treadmill exercise during pregnancy decreases anxiety and increases prefrontal cortex VEGF and BDNF levels of rat pups in early and late periods of life

I Aksu, B Baykara, S Ozbal, F Cetin, AR Sisman… - Neuroscience …, 2012 - Elsevier
In a previous study we demonstrated that, regular aerobic exercise during pregnancy
decreased maternal deprivation induced anxiety. The purpose of this study is to investigate …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of running before pregnancy on long-term memory and hippocampal alterations induced by prenatal stress

C Luft, IP Levices, MS da Costa, JR de Oliveira… - Neuroscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
Studies have shown that an adverse environment in utero influences fetal growth and
development, leading to several neuroendocrine and behavioral changes in adult life …

Resistance exercise was safe for the pregnancy and offspring's development and partially protected rats against early life stress-induced effects

AS Dos Santos, E Segabinazi, W de Almeida… - Behavioural Brain …, 2023 - Elsevier
Promising evidence points to gestational physical exercise as the key to preventing various
disorders that affect the offspring neurodevelopment, but there are no studies showing the …

Exercise before pregnancy attenuates the effects of prenatal stress in adult mice in a sex‐dependent manner

C Luft, IP Levices, MS da Costa… - International Journal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The present study aimed to investigate the long‐term effects of exercise before pregnancy
on changes induced by prenatal stress. Female and male Balb/c mice were divided into …

The role of maternal exercise on placental, behavioral and genetic alterations induced by prenatal stress

C Luft, MS da Costa, GL Antunes, JR de Oliveira… - Neurochemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of treadmill maternal exercise on alterations
induced by prenatal stress in neonatal mice. Female and male Balb/c mice were divided into …

Maternal exercise decreases maternal deprivation induced anxiety of pups and correlates to increased prefrontal cortex BDNF and VEGF

N Uysal, AR Sisman, A Dayi, I Aksu, F Cetin… - Neuroscience …, 2011 - Elsevier
Maternal deprivation (MD) may cause neuropsychiatric disorders such as anxiety disorder
by negatively affecting the cognitive functions and behavior in pups. The aim of this study is …

Serotonergic and noradrenergic lesions suppress the enhancing effect of maternal exercise during pregnancy on learning and memory in rat pups

MM Akhavan, M Emami-Abarghoie, M Safari… - Neuroscience, 2008 - Elsevier
The beneficial effects of exercise on learning and memory are well documented but the
effects of prenatal exposure to maternal exercise on offspring are not clear yet. Using a two …