Long-term hypoxia enhances proopiomelanocortin processing in the near-term ovine fetus

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 288, Issue 5 57-5, 2005, Pages

  Myers, Dean A ^a   Bell, Paige A ^a   Hyatt, Kimberly ^a   Mlynarczyk, Malgorzata ^b   Ducsay, Charles A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; Adrenocorticotropin; Anterior pituitary; Sheep

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN[1-39]; HORMONE PRECURSOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; NITROGEN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FETUS; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOXIA; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; STEROIDOGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FETAL HYPOXIA; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; SHEEP;

EID: 17844383219     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00697.2004     Document Type: Article

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