Environmental disturbance confounds prenatal glucocorticoid programming experiments in Wistar rats

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 199-205

  O'Regan, D ^a   Kenyon, C J ^b   Seckl, J R ^b   Holmes, M C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction; Environment; Glucocorticoid; Programming; Refinement

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ACOUSTIC STRESS; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL STRESS; PRENATAL PERIOD; RAT; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENT; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; NEWBORN; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; TOXICITY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRTH WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NOISE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77954450557     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/la.2009.009032     Document Type: Article

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