[Gonadal and adrenal reactions to emotional stress in adult rats after the androgenization of their mothers during pregnancy].

The administration of testosterone propionate on the 26th and 18th days of Wistar rats pregnancy exerted no effect on adrenal activity during physiological resting or emotional stress in their progeny. However, in intact males, stress did not change the testosterone level whereas the estradiol content decreased in intact females. This difference in the estradiol level increased in emotional stress if the development of the females had occurred at an increased level of testosterone.