Androstenedione synergizes with stress or prenatal drug exposure to retard fetal growth: Role of IGF

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 549-557

  McGivern, Robert F ^a   Fatayerji, Nabil ^b   Handa, Robert J ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

androstenedione; birth weight; cocaine; estrogen; ethanol; fetus; insulinlike growth factor; insulinlike growth factor binding proteins 1 and 2; intrauterine growth retardation; liver; lung; placenta

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHOLESTEROL; COCAINE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; SOMATOMEDIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; COCAINE; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SOMATOMEDINS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0030462272     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(96)00249-3     Document Type: Article

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