Prenatal programming of adult blood pressure: Role of maternal corticosteroids

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 289, Issue 4 58-4, 2005, Pages

  Woods, Lori L ^a   Weeks, Douglas A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Glomerular filtration rate; Hypertension; Prenatal dexamethasone

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FOOD INTAKE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; DEXAMETHASONE; EATING; FEMALE; KIDNEY; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 25844505510     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00455.2004     Document Type: Article

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