Antenatal dexamethasone treatment in midgestation reduces system A-mediated transport in the late-gestation murine placenta

Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3561-3570

  Audette, Melanie C ^a   Challis, John R G ^a,b,c   Jones, Rebecca L ^c   Sibley, Colin P ^c   Matthews, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Canadian Institutes of Health Research   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 METHYL 2 METHYLAMINOPROPIONIC ACID; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; CARBON 14; DEXAMETHASONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM A; ANIMALS; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 80052493197     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2011-0104     Document Type: Article

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