The effects of dexamethasone treatment in early gestation on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal responses and gene expression at 7 months of postnatal age in sheep

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 260-270

  Li, Shaofu ^a,b   Nitsos, Ilias ^a   Polglase, Graeme R ^a,c,d   Braun, Thorsten ^e,f   Moss, Timothy J M ^a,c,d   Newnham, John P ^a,b   Challis, John R G ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Women and Infants Research Foundation of Western Australia   (Australia)

^c HUDSON INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

dexamethasone; fetal programming; hypothalamic pituitary adrenal; steroidogenic enzymes

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; 3BETA HYDROXY DELTA5 STEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 1; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 2; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; EWE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GESTATION PERIOD; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, INBRED STRAINS; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

EID: 84859823655     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719111418374     Document Type: Article

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