An early prenatal exposure to excess glucocorticoid leads to hypertensive offspring in sheep

Clinical Science

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-155

  Dodic, M ^a   May, C N ^a   Wintour, E M ^a   Coghlan, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dexamethasone; Hypertension; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN; PLASMA PROTEIN; POTASSIUM ION; RENIN; SODIUM ION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0031962498     PISSN: 01435221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/cs0940149     Document Type: Article

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