Prenatal glucocorticoid modifies hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal regulation in prepubertal guinea pigs

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 194-202

  Dean, Farrah ^a   Yu, Catherine ^a   Lingas, Rania I ^a   Matthews, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adrenal steroid receptors; Adrenal steroids; Guinea pig; Hippocampus; Prenatal imprinting

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BRAIN GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GUINEA PIG; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS INTERMEDIATE LOBE; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGAN GROWTH; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRESS; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GUINEA PIGS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PUBERTY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0035741789     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000054636     Document Type: Article

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