Fetal adrenal gland alterations in a rat model of adverse intrauterine environment

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Bibeau, Karine ^a   Battista, Marie Claude ^b   Houde, Véronique ^a   Brochu, Michèle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Catecholamine; Developmental plasticity; Fetal programming; Steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ALDOSTERONE SYNTHASE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOCHROME P45011 BETA HYDROXYLASE; MESSENGER RNA; OXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ADRENAL GLAND; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOXIA; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SODIUM RESTRICTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 77949846847     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00238.2009     Document Type: Article

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