Complex actions of estradiol-3-sulfate in late gestation fetal brain

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 654-665

  Winikor, Jared ^a   Schlaerth, Christine ^a   Rabaglino, Maria Belen ^a   Cousins, Roderick ^a   Sutherland, Monique ^a   Wood, Charles E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH; cortisol; cyclooxygenase; estrogen receptor; estrogen sulfotransferase; FSH; LH; prolactin; prostaglandin synthase; steroid sulfatase

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTRADIOL 3 SULFATE; ESTRADIOL DERIVATIVE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN SULFOTRANSFERASE; FOLLITROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; STERYL SULFATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HYDROCORTISONE; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; STERYL-SULFATASE; SULFOTRANSFERASES;

EID: 79959516694     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719110395400     Document Type: Article

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