Maternal undernutrition throughout pregnancy increases adrenocorticotrophin receptor and steroidogenic acute regulatory protein gene expression in the adrenal gland of twin fetal sheep during late gestation

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 196, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 1-10

  Edwards, L J ^a   Bryce, A E ^a   Coulter, C L ^a   McMillen, I C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fetus; Steroidogenesis; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; MELANOCORTIN 2 RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ADRENAL FUNCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATION PERIOD; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHEEP; STEROIDOGENESIS; TWIN PREGNANCY; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOPHYSIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TWINS; UPREGULATION;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; MATERNAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PITUITARY GLAND; PREGNANCY; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 2; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; TWINS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0037206393     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(02)00256-3     Document Type: Article

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