Increased uncoupling protein-2 mRNA abundance and glucocorticoid action in adipose tissue in the sheep fetus during late gestation is dependent on plasma cortisol and triiodothyronine

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 567, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 283-292

  Gnanalingham, M G ^a   Mostyn, A ^a   Forhead, A J ^b   Fowden, A L ^b   Symonds, Michael E ^a,c   Stephenson, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; LIOTHYRONINE; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 2; 11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 1; 11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; 11BETA HSD1 GENE; 11BETA HSD2 GENE; ABDOMINAL FAT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GR GENE; PERIRENAL FAT; UCP2 GENE; UPREGULATION;

11-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE TYPE 1; 11-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE TYPE 2; ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE; ION CHANNELS; KIDNEY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 23844530827     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.091223     Document Type: Article

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