Tissue-specific messenger ribonucleic acid expression of 11β- hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase types 1 and 2 and the glucocorticoid receptor within rat placenta suggests exquisite local control of glucocorticoid action

Endocrinology

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1517-1523

  Waddell, Brendan J ^a,b   Benediktsson, Rafn ^a   Brown, Roger W ^a   Seckl, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031734580     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.139.4.5900     Document Type: Article

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