Maternal protein restriction during pregnancy and/or lactation negatively affects follicular ovarian development and steroidogenesis in the prepubertal rat offspring

Archives of Medical Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 294-300

  Guzmán, Carolina ^a   García Becerra, Rocío ^b   Aguilar Medina, Marco Antonio ^b   Méndez, Isabel ^c   Merchant Larios, Horacio ^d   Zambrano, Elena ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Developmental programming; Maternal protein restriction; Ovary; Prepubertal development

Indexed keywords

CASEIN; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); CYCLOPHILIN A; CYTOCHROME P450; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; LACTATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; PREGNANCY; PREPUBERTY; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RAT; STEROIDOGENESIS;

DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMMING; MATERNAL PROTEIN RESTRICTION; OVARY; PREPUBERTAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; LACTATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GONADOTROPIN; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 84901983285     PISSN: 01884409     EISSN: 18735487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arcmed.2014.05.005     Document Type: Article

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