Cardiac corticosteroid receptors mediate the enlargement of the ovine fetal heart induced by chronic increases in maternal cortisol

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 419-427

  Reini, Seth A ^a   Dutta, Garima ^b   Wood, Charles E ^a   Keller Wood, Maureen ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANRENOATE POTASSIUM; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MIFEPRISTONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOMEGALY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EWE; FETUS; FETUS HEART; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CANRENOATE POTASSIUM; CARDIOMEGALY; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIFEPRISTONE; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SHEEP;

EID: 51349094673     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/JOE-08-0022     Document Type: Article

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