Fetal sheep pituitary proopiomelanocortin in late gestation: Effect of bilateral lesions of the paraventricular nucleus on regional and cellular messenger ribonucleic acid levels

Endocrinology

Volumn 138, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 3873-3880

  Bell, M E ^a   Myers, T R ^a   Mcdonald, T J ^b   Myers, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030838081     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.138.9.5377     Document Type: Article

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