Sex- and age-specific effects of nutrition in early gestation and early postnatal life on hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis and sympathoadrenal function in adult sheep

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 588, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2219-2237

  Poore, Kirsten R ^a   Boullin, Julian P ^a   Cleal, Jane K ^a   Newman, James P ^a   Noakes, David E ^b   Hanson, Mark A ^a   Green, Lucy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ADRENALIN; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWE; EXERCISE TEST; FEEDING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RATE; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MOUNTAINEERING; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP; WEANING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADRENAL GLAND WEIGHT; ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; AGE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DEPTH; BODY SIZE; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; GROWTH DISORDER; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LAMB; MATERNAL NUTRITION; ORGAN WEIGHT; PITUITARY GLAND WEIGHT; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PREGNANCY; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INNERVATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SHEEP; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY COMPOSITION; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SEX FACTORS; SHEEP; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 77954656164     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.187682     Document Type: Article

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