Maternal undernutrition programs offspring adrenal expression of steroidogenic enzymes

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 931-940

  Khorram, Naseem M ^a,b,c   Magee, Thomas R ^a,b,c   Wang, Chen ^a,b,c   Desai, Mina ^a,b,c   Ross, Michael ^a,b,c   Khorram, Omid ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ACTH receptor; adrenal; fetal programming; glucocorticoids; leptin receptor; maternal undernutrition; STAR protein; steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE SYNTHASE; CHOLESTEROL; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; CYTOCHROME P450 1A1; CYTOCHROME P450 1B1; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; STEROID 11BETA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; UPREGULATION;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MALE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; STEROIDS;

EID: 80053531659     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719111404613     Document Type: Article

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