Adult glucocorticoid exposure leads to transcriptional and DNA methylation changes in nuclear steroid receptors in the hippocampus and kidney of mouse male offspring

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Petropoulos, Sophie ^a   Matthews, Stephen G ^a,b   Szyf, Moshe ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Epigenetics; Fetal programming; Germ cells; Glucocorticoids; Sperm

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ACUTE STRESS; ADRENAL CORTEX FUNCTION; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; KIDNEY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERM; ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SPERMATOZOON;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899935926     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.115899     Document Type: Article

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