Glucocorticoid receptor disruption delays structural maturation in the lungs of newborn mice

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-133

  Nemati, Baharak ^a,b   Atmodjo, Wayhuni ^a   Gagnon, Stéphane ^a   Humes, Daryl ^a   McKerlie, Colin ^a   Kaplan, Feige ^c   Sweezey, Neil B ^a,b,d  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lung development; Steroid signaling; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CAPILLARIES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 39449087957     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20746     Document Type: Article

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