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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 28.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Neurobiol. 2003 Apr;27(2):121–136. doi: 10.1385/MN:27:2:121

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Alternative mechanisms by which early-life-handling in rats leads to an attenuated stress response in adulthood. The authors emphasize that the precedence of the “chicken” (reduced CRH expression in hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus [PVN]) over the “egg” (increased expression of glucocorticoid receptors [GR] in hippocampus) is specific to the process under discussion.