Maternal dexamethasone treatment at midgestation reduces nephron number and alters renal gene expression in the fetal spiny mouse

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Dickinson, Hayley ^a   Walker, David W ^a   Wintour, E Marelyn ^a   Moritz, Karen ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acomys cahirinus; BMP4; Fetal programming; Gremlin; Stereology; TGF 1

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOMERULUS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY MASS; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; NEPHRON; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PUMP; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG IMPLANTS; FEMALE; FOLLISTATIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROCORTISONE; KIDNEY; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; MURINAE; NEPHRONS; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UP-REGULATION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 33846259288     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00481.2006     Document Type: Article

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