Genomic analysis of neuroendocrine development of fetal brain-pituitary-adrenal axis in late gestation

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 218-224

  Keller Wood, Maureen ^a,b   Powers, Melanie J ^a   Gersting, Jason A ^a   Ali, Nyima ^a   Wood, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Glucocorticoid receptor; Mineralocorticoid receptor; Proopiomelanocortin; Sheep fetus

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; SERUM AND GLUCOCORTICOID REGULATED KINASE 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SHEEP;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BRAIN STEM; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; GENETIC MARKERS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33645776742     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00176.2005     Document Type: Article

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