Inhibition of fetal adrenal adrenocorticotropin receptor messenger ribonucleic acid expression by betamethasone administration to the baboon fetus in late gestation

Endocrinology

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2705-2712

  Leavitt, Maria G ^a   Aberdeen, Graham W ^b   Burch, Marcia G ^a   Albrecht, Eugene D ^a   Pepe, Gerald J ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BABOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETUS GROWTH; GROWTH INHIBITION; HORMONAL REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

EID: 0030946115     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.138.7.5225     Document Type: Article

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