Dexamethasone in the last week of pregnancy attenuates hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor gene expression and elevates blood pressure in the adult offspring in the rat

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 412-418

  Levitt, Naomi S ^a   Lindsay, Robert S ^a   Holmes, Megan C ^a   Seckl, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adrenal steroids; Circumventricular organs; Hippocampus; Hypertension; Organum vasculosum laminae terminalis; Placenta; Pregnancy; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; STRESS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 0030444722     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000127146     Document Type: Article

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