Effect of pulsatile growth hormone administration to the growth-restricted fetal sheep on somatotrophic axis gene expression in fetal and placental tissues

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 291, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Bloomfield, F H ^a   Van Zijl, P L ^a   Bauer, M K ^a   Phua, H H ^a   Harding, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fetal therapy; Intrauterine growth restriction

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FETUS (ANATOMY); GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING CELL; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE HORMONE RELEASE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GROWTH HORMONE; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 1; SHEEP; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33745846389     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00045.2006     Document Type: Article

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