Glucocorticoids and fetal programming part 2: Mechanisms

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 403-411

  Moisiadis, Vasilis G ^a   Matthews, Stephen G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 1; 11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3B; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE SYNTHASE REDUCTASE; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; MICRORNA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTOR; PLACENTA LACTOGEN; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; TELOMERASE; TRANSCORTIN; TYROSINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

AGING; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; FETAL PROGRAMMING; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; MATERNAL STRESS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TRANSGENERATIONAL PROGRAMMING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84903218041     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2014.74     Document Type: Review

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