Effect of maternal betamethasone administration at midgestation on baboon fetal adrenal gland development and adrenocorticotropin receptor messenger ribonucleic acid expression

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 976-982

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

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

^b EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3BETA HYDROXY DELTA5 STEROID DEHYDROGENASE; BETAMETHASONE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; CYTOCHROME P450 ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BABOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; ORGANOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; PAPIO; PITUITARY GLAND; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROIDS;

ANIMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES;

EID: 0031760162     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.83.3.976     Document Type: Article

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