A single course of prenatal betamethasone in the rat alters postnatal brain cell proliferation but not apoptosis

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 552, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 163-175

  Scheepens, Arjan ^a,b   van de Waarenbug, Marjo ^a,b   van den Hove, Daniël ^a,b   Blanco, Carlos E ^a,c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; BROXURIDINE; CASPASE 3; CORTICOSTEROID; STEROID; THYMIDINE; CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BODY GROWTH; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN WEIGHT; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GROWTH RETARDATION; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOUSE; ORGAN WEIGHT; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BETAMETHASONE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL DIVISION; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEAD; HYPERGLYCEMIA; LITTER SIZE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0142062064     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.043414     Document Type: Review

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