Differential actions of metyrapone on the fetal pituitary-adrenal axis in the sheep fetus in late gestation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 620-628

  Warnes, K E ^a   McMillen, I C ^a   Robinson, J S ^a   Coulter, C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adrenal cortex; Adrenocorticotropic hormone receptor; Anterior pituitary; Pregnancy; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 11A1; CYTOCHROME P450 17; MESSENGER RNA; METYRAPONE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; DRUG ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FETUS (ANATOMY); GROWTH REGULATION; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEROIDOGENESIS; THICKNESS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

11-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE TYPE 2; 3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; CORTODOXONE; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE; METYRAPONE; ORGAN SIZE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 2; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROID 21-HYDROXYLASE;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 3242788059     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.025197     Document Type: Article

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