Long-term hypoxia enhances ACTH response to arginine vasopressin but not corticotropin-releasing hormone in the near-term ovine fetus

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 297, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Ducsay, Charles A ^a   Mlynarczyk, Malgorzata ^a   Kaushal, Kanchan M ^a   Hyatt, Kim ^b   Hanson, Krista ^b   Myers, Dean A ^b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropic hormone; Cortisol; Hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN[1-39]; HORMONE PRECURSOR; MESSENGER RNA; NITROGEN; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

ACTH SECRETING CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS HYPOXIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RNA ANALYSIS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL HYPOXIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 69249086183     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00220.2009     Document Type: Article

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