Reconciling the nutritional and glucocorticoid hypotheses of fetal programming

FASEB Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1866-1874

  Cottrell, Elizabeth C ^a   Holmes, Megan C ^a   Livingstone, Dawn E ^a   Kenyon, Christopher J ^a   Seckl, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

11 hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 2; Hypothalamo pituitary adrenal axis; Low protein diet

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; HETEROZYGOSITY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; STRESS;

11-BETA-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE TYPE 2; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CORTICOSTERONE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

MUS;

EID: 84860904832     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.12-203489     Document Type: Article

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