Is the fetal lung a mineralocorticoid receptor target organ? Induction of cortisol-regulated genes in the ovine fetal lung, kidney and small intestine

Neonatology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-60

  Keller Wood, Maureen ^a   Von Reitzenstein, Marcela ^a   McCartney, Jarret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aldosterone; Cortisol; ENaC ; Fetal lung; Na,K ATPase

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 1; 11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM) ALPHA1; ALDOSTERONE; EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL; EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL ALPHA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SERUM AND GLUCOCORTICOID REGULATED KINASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS LUNG; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CORTEX; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMALL INTESTINE; TARGET ORGAN; WHOLE CELL;

11-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE TYPE 1; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; INTESTINE, SMALL; KIDNEY; LUNG; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 51349146933     PISSN: 16617800     EISSN: 16617819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000151755     Document Type: Article

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