Antioxidant defenses in the rat placenta in late gestation: Increased labyrinthine expression of superoxide dismutases, glutathione peroxidase 3, and uncoupling protein 2

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 254-260

  Jones, Megan L ^a   Mark, Peter J ^a   Lewis, Jessica L ^a   Mori, Trevor A ^b   Keelan, Jeffery A ^c   Waddell, Brendan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Glucocorticoid; Oxidative stress; Placenta; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; ISOPROSTANE DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 2; XANTHINE OXIDASE; 8-HYDROXYGUANOSINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GPX3 PROTEIN, RAT; GUANOSINE; ION CHANNEL; MITOCHONDRIAL UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL WEIGHT; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GUANOSINE; ION CHANNELS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; ORGAN SIZE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES;

EID: 77955374456     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.083907     Document Type: Article

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