Inhibition of brain prostaglandin endoperoxide synthase-2 prevents the preparturient increase in fetal adrenocorticotropin secretion in the sheep fetus

Endocrinology

Volumn 149, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 4128-4136

  Gersting, Jason ^a   Schaub, Christine E ^a   Keller Wood, Maureen ^b   Wood, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; NIMESULIDE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROSTAGLANDIN DERIVATIVE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASE 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FEMALE; FETUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; SHEEP; TWINS;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; PARTURITION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; SHEEP; SULFONAMIDES; TWINS;

EID: 47949085243     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-0123     Document Type: Article

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