Repeated administrations of adrenocorticotropic hormone during late gestation in pigs: Maternal cortisol response and effects on fetal HPA axis and brain neurotransmitter systems

Theriogenology

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 312-322

  Otten, W ^a   Kanitz, E ^a   Tuchscherer, M ^a   Brussow K P ^a   Nurnberg G ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 Hydroxytryptamine; ACTH; Glucocorticoid receptor; Pigs; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; BIOGENIC AMINE; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; KINETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SWINE; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL VEIN;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INSULIN; KINETICS; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SWINE; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UMBILICAL VEINS;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 38049002012     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2007.09.025     Document Type: Article

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