A role for glucocorticoids in stress-impaired reproduction: Beyond the hypothalamus and pituitary

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4450-4468

  Whirledge, Shannon ^a   Cidlowski, John A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; EOSINOPHIL CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; KISSPEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1;

APOPTOSIS; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILITY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; INFERTILITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REPRODUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS; FEMALE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PITUITARY GLAND; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84888249732     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1652     Document Type: Short Survey

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