Estrogen elicits cortical zone-specific effects on development of the primate fetal adrenal gland

Endocrinology

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1737-1744

  Albrecht, Eugene D ^a   Aberdeen, Graham W ^a   Pepe, Gerald J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ENZYME; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; HYDROCORTISONE; LETROZOLE; MESSENGER RNA; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL GLAND DEVELOPMENT; ADRENAL GLAND WEIGHT; ADRENAL VOLUME; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BABOON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN RELEASE; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HORMONE RELEASE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; ORGAN WEIGHT; ORGANOGENESIS; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STEROIDOGENESIS; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMALS; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; ESTRONE; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; NITRILES; ORGAN SIZE; PAPIO; PITUITARY GLAND; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RNA, MESSENGER; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 15444370107     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2004-1124     Document Type: Article

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