The kidney is resistant to chronic hypoglycaemia in late-gestation fetal sheep

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 597-605

  Boyce, Amanda C ^a   Gibson, Karen J ^a   Wintour, E Marelyn ^b,d   Koukoulas, Irene ^b   Gatford, Kathryn L ^c   Owens, Julie A ^c   Lumbers, Eugenie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Glucose; Nutrition; Programming; Renal development

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; MESSENGER RNA; RENIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANGIOTENSIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY MASS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PH MEASUREMENT; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; SHEEP; SPLEEN WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEINS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; OXYGEN; POTASSIUM; PREGNANCY; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM; SHEEP; SOMATOMEDINS;

EID: 34948814733     PISSN: 00084212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Y07-047     Document Type: Article

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