Loss of the pregnancy-induced rise in cortisol concentrations in the ewe impairs the fetal insulin-like growth factor axis

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 665-672

  Jensen, Ellen C ^a   Bennet, Laura ^a   Wood, Charles ^b   Vickers, Mark ^c   Breier, Bernhard ^d   Gunn, Alistair J ^a   Keller Wood, Maureen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

glucocorticoids; maternal stress

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 2; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR;

ADRENALECTOMY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWE; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS LIVER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEINS; LIVER; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOMEDINS; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79958150178     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD10317     Document Type: Article

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