Functional biology of the primate fetal adrenal gland: Advances in technology provide new insight

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 475-484

  Coulter, Catherine L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adrenal; Fetal placental unit; Growth factors; Steroid hormones; Transcription

Indexed keywords

15 HYDROXYPROSTAGLANDIN DEHYDROGENASE; 7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CITRATE LYASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CATENIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 8; CYTOCHROME P450C17; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; FASCICLIN I; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 4; GALACTOSYLCERAMIDE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; LUMICAN; MIDKINE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE TYPE C; PRASTERONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PREGNENOLONE; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN P53; SOMATOMEDIN; SQUALENE SYNTHASE; STEROL DERIVATIVE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADRENAL GLAND; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL MIGRATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHOLESTEROL SIDE CHAIN CLEAVAGE; DNA MICROARRAY; FETUS; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; HYPOPLASIA; LASER MICRODISSECTION; MICRODISSECTION; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; SENESCENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOBLAST; X CHROMOSOME;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; FETUS; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 4143115571     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2004.04031.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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