The prolonged effect of repeated maternal glucocorticoid exposure on the maternal and fetal leptin/insulin-like growth factor axis in Papio species

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 308-319

  Schlabritz Loutsevitch, Natalia E ^a,c,g   Lopez Alvarenga, Juan C ^d   Comuzzie, Anthony G ^c,d   Miller, Myrna M ^f   Ford, Stephen P ^e   Li, Cun ^a   Hubbard, Gene B ^c   Ferry Jr , Robert J ^b   Nathanielsz, Peter W ^a,c,d  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^f USDA ARS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboon; Glucocorticoid; IGF binding protein; Insulin like growth factor; Leptin; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PAPIO; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHOLESTEROL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EATING; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL WEIGHT; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYDROCORTISONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 3; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; LEPTIN; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 60049086405     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719108325755     Document Type: Article

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