Mechanisms for the adverse effects of late gestational increases in maternal cortisol on the heart revealed by transcriptomic analyses of the fetal septum

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 46, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 547-559

  Richards, Elaine M ^a   Wood, Charles E ^a   Rabaglino, Maria Belen ^a   Antolic, Andrew ^a   Keller Wood, Maureen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Fetal heart; Late gestation; Metabolism; Mitochondria

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; COLLAGEN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS HEART; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENOTOXICITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART MITOCHONDRION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE METABOLISM; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERCORTISOLISM; MATURATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BLOOD; BREEDING; CARDIOMEGALY; EMBRYOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEART; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; CARDIOMEGALY; COLLAGEN; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEART; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, ANIMAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SHEEP; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84905278078     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00009.2014     Document Type: Article

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