Glucocorticoid receptor is required for foetal heart maturation

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 3269-3282

  Rog Zielinska, Eva A ^a   Thomson, Adrian ^a   Kenyon, Christopher J ^a   Brownstein, David G ^b   Moran, Carmel M ^a   Szumska, Dorota ^c   Michailidou, Zoi ^a,b   Richardson, Jennifer ^a   Owen, Elizabeth ^a   Watt, Alistair ^b   Morrison, Harris ^e   Forrester, Lesley M ^d   Bhattacharya, Shoumo ^c   Holmes, Megan C ^a   Chapman, Karen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; CALCIUM; CRE RECOMBINASE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSGELIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; ENERGY METABOLISM; FETUS HEART; FETUS HYDROPS; GENERALIZED EDEMA; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATURATION; MOUSE; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; FETAL HEART; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEART; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; MYOFIBRILS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84881262986     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt182     Document Type: Article

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