Maternal glucocorticoid treatment modulates placental leptin and leptin receptor expression and materno-fetal leptin physiology during late pregnancy, and elicits hypertension associated with hyperleptinaemia in the early-growth-retarded adult offspring

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 529-539

  Sugden, M C ^a   Langdown, M L ^a   Munns, M J ^a   Holness, M J ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

ABNORMALLY HIGH SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD; ADULTHOOD; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY WEIGHT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIET RESTRICTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPERINSULINEMIA; HYPERLEPTINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOLEPTINEMIA; IMPLANTATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MINIPUMP; MODULATION; MOTHER; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STIMULUS; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; TAIL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0034804294     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/eje.0.1450529     Document Type: Article

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