Prenatal undernutrition decreases the sensitivity of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis in rat, as revealed by subcutaneous and intra-paraventricular dexamethasone challenges

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 419, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 99-103

  Navarrete, Mario ^a   Núñez, Héctor ^a   Ruiz, Samuel ^b   Soto Moyano, Rubén ^a   Valladares, Luis ^a   White, Allan ^c   Pérez, Hernán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Dexamethasone; Hypothalamo pituitary adrenal axis; Paraventricular nucleus; Prenatal undernutrition

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; FETAL NUTRITION DISORDERS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 34248195491     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.04.019     Document Type: Article

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