Effects of maternal dexamethasone treatment in early pregnancy on pituitary-adrenal axis in fetal sheep

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5466-5477

  Braun, Thorsten ^a,b   Li, Shaofu ^c   Sloboda, Deborah M ^c,d,e   Li, Wei ^a   Audette, Melanie C ^a   Moss, Timothy J M ^c,d,f   Matthews, Stephen G ^a   Polglase, Graeme ^c,d   Nitsos, Ilias ^c   Newnham, John P ^c,d   Challis, John R G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; CYTOCHROME P450C17; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROENDOCRINE SPECIFIC PROTEIN; PROCONVERTASE TYPE 1; PROCONVERTASE TYPE 2; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; TRANSCORTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FETOTOXICITY; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HORMONE ACTION; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

EID: 71949119374     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2009-0086     Document Type: Article

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