Maternal dexamethasone treatment in late gestation alters glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptor mRNA in the fetal guinea pig brain

Brain Research

Volumn 846, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 253-259

  Dean, Farrah ^a   Matthews, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Dexamethasone; Fetus; Glucocorticoid; Glucocorticoid receptor; Guinea pig; Hypothalamo pituitary adrenal axis; Limbic system; Mineralocorticoid receptor

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GUINEA PIG; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GUINEA PIGS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; THYROXINE;

EID: 0032722541     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)02064-8     Document Type: Article

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