Endocrine disorders in pregnancy: Stress responses in children after maternal glucocorticoids

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 629-630

  Challis, John R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE;

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATION PERIOD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOXEMIA; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MATERNAL BLOOD; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRESS; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; UPREGULATION;

CHILD; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84867678462     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2012.183     Document Type: Article

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