Increased central and peripheral glucocorticoid synthesis act as an orchestrator of developmental programming

Stress and Developmental Programming of Health and Disease: Beyond Phenomenology

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 463-485

  Zambrano, Elena ^a   Tuersunjiang, Nuermaimaiti ^b   Long, Nathan M ^c   Guo, Chunming ^b   Sun, Kang ^b   Cox, Laura A ^d   Ford, Stephen P ^e   Nathanielsz, Peter W ^b   Li, Cun ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboon; Developmental programming; Glucocorticoids; Hypothalamo pituitary adrenal axis; Nutrition; Sheep

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919823552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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