The placental response to excess maternal glucocorticoid exposure differs between the male and female conceptus in spiny mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1040-1047

  O'Connell, Bree A ^a   Moritz, Karen M ^b   Roberts, Claire T ^c   Walker, David W ^a   Dickinson, Hayley ^b  

^a HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Developmental origins of health and disease; Gene expression; Sex; Stress; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLIAL CELL MISSING HOMOLOG 1; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 1; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 3 GROUP C MEMBER 1; PROTEIN BAX; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNAL BLOOD SINUSOID; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER TYPE 1; MALE; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEUROPEPTIDES; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

ACOMYS; MUS SAXICOLA;

EID: 81055126905     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.093369     Document Type: Article

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