Fetal programming of adult hypertension in female rat offspring exposed to androgens in utero

Early Human Development

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 407-414

  Sathishkumar, K ^a   Elkins, Rebekah ^a   Yallampalli, Uma ^a   Balakrishnan, Meena ^a   Yallampalli, Chandrasekhar ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Endothelium; Fetal programming; Nitric oxide; Pregnancy; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANDROGEN; CORTICOSTERONE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ESTRADIOL; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENYLEPHRINE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GESTATION PERIOD; GROWTH RATE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERTENSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MESENTERIC ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY SIZE; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HYPERTENSION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

EID: 79955736428     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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