Preterm Birth: Associated Neuroendocrine, Medical, and Behavioral Risk Factors¹

Determinants of low birth weight: methodological assessment and meta-analysis.

1987 • 2,721 citations

Intrauterine Infection and Preterm Delivery

2000 • 2,501 citations

Epidemiology of Preterm Birth

1993 • 877 citations

Persistent elevations of cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of corticotropin-releasing factor in adult nonhuman primates exposed to early-life stressors: implications for the pathophysiology of mood and anxiety disorders.

1996 • 653 citations

The role of stress and the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis in the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome: neuro-endocrine and target tissue-related causes

2000 • 618 citations

Actions of Placental and Fetal Adrenal Steroid Hormones in Primate Pregnancy*

1995 • 469 citations

Maternal plasma corticotropin-releasing hormone associated with stress at 20 weeks’ gestation in pregnancies ending in preterm delivery

1999 • 465 citations

Glucocorticoid stimulates expression of corticotropin-releasing hormone gene in human placenta.

1988 • 437 citations

Oral administration of a corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor antagonist significantly attenuates behavioral, neuroendocrine, and autonomic responses to stress in primates

2000 • 395 citations

Plasma Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Concentrations During Pregnancy and Parturition*

1987 • 388 citations

Corticotropin-Releasing Factor*

1982 • 326 citations

Contribution of preterm delivery to perinatal mortality.

1976 • 325 citations

Prenatal Psychosocial Factors and the Neuroendocrine Axis in Human Pregnancy

1996 • 321 citations

Corticosterone delivery to the amygdala increases corticotropin-releasing factor mRNA in the central amygdaloid nucleus and anxiety-like behavior

2000 • 313 citations

Elevated levels of umbilical cord plasma corticotropin-releasing hormone in growth-retarded fetuses.

1993 • 297 citations

Characterization and gestational regulation of corticotropin-releasing hormone messenger RNA in human placenta.

1988 • 267 citations

Steroids Modulate Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Production in Human Fetal Membranes and Placenta*

1989 • 264 citations

Effects of corticosterone on CRH mRNA and content in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; comparison with the effects in the central nucleus of the amygdala and the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus

1994 • 243 citations

Corticotropin Releasing Factor (CRF) Binding Protein: A Novel Regulator of CRF and Related Peptides

1995 • 239 citations

The Impact of the Nonpeptide Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Antagonist Antalarmin on Behavioral and Endocrine Responses to Stress**This research was supported by NIMH Grant MH-50479 and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

1999 • 238 citations

Prenatal stress increases corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) content and release in rat amygdala minces

1995 • 200 citations

The Localization and Distribution of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone in the Human Placenta and Fetal Membranes throughout Gestation*

1991 • 181 citations

Specific high-affinity binding protein for human corticotropin-releasing hormone in normal human plasma

1987 • 181 citations

PROLONGED STRESS-INDUCED ELEVATION IN PLASMA CORTICOSTERONE DURING PREGNANCY IN THE RAT: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRENATAL STRESS STUDIES

1998 • 179 citations

Plasma corticotrophin‐releasing factor (CRF) in abnormal pregnancy

1988 • 163 citations

Salivary estriol as risk assessment for preterm labor: A prospective trial

1995 • 158 citations

Elevated maternal plasma corticotropin-releasing hormone levels in pregnancies complicated by preterm labor

1992 • 157 citations

Role of corticotropin-releasing hormone in onset of labour

1999 • 147 citations

Few microorganisms associated with bacterial vaginosis may constitute the pathologic core: A population-based microbiologic study among 3596 pregnant women

1998 • 141 citations

A central theory of preterm and term labor: Putative role for corticotropin-releasing hormone

1999 • 134 citations

Current topic: The placental corticotrophin-releasing hormone-adrenocorticotrophin axis

1995 • 118 citations

A SPECIFIC CARRIER SUBSTANCE FOR HUMAN CORTICOTROPHIN RELEASING FACTOR IN LATE GESTATIONAL MATERNAL PLASMA WHICH COULD MASK THE ACTH‐RELEASING ACTIVITY

1988 • 116 citations

Preterm birth: A puzzle worth solving

1991 • 107 citations

Concentrations of corticotrophin-releasing hormone in the umbilical-cord blood of pregnancies complicated by pre-eclampsia

1995 • 101 citations

Corticotropin-releasing factor and its binding protein: Maternal serum levels in term and preterm deliveries

1996 • 85 citations

Corticotrophin‐releasing Hormone and CRH‐binding Protein: Differences between Patients at Risk for Preterm Birth and Hypertension

1999 • 84 citations

Life in the womb: the origin of health and disease

1999 • 76 citations

NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY OF THE HUMAN PLACENTA

1990 • 76 citations

Antenatal glucocorticoid administration increases corticotrophin‐releasing hormone in maternal plasma

1998 • 74 citations

Maternal plasma and placental immunoreactive corticotrophin-releasing factor concentrations in infection-associated term and pre-term delivery

1995 • 57 citations

A Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Type I Receptor Antagonist Delays Parturition in Sheep

1998 • 57 citations

CRF administered to pregnant rats alters offspring behavior and morphology

1995 • 52 citations

[Social classification. II. Stalastoga's subdivision according to social status rank and the social grouping employed by the Institute for Social Research].

1980 • 49 citations

Corticotropin-releasing hormone: A biochemical predictor of preterm delivery in a pilot randomized trial of the treatment of preterm labor

1998 • 40 citations

Corticotropin-releasing hormone signals adversity in both the placenta and the brain: regulation by glucocorticoids and allostatic overload

1999 • 39 citations

Measurement of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), CRF-binding protein (CRF-BP), and CRF/CRF-BP complex in human plasma by two-site enzyme-linked immunoabsorbant assay.

1996 • 30 citations