Glucocorticoids and Reproduction: Traffic Control on the Road to Reproduction

Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 399-415

  Whirledge, Shannon ^a   Cidlowski, John A ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

BIODIVERSITY; CELL FUNCTION; FERTILITY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENITAL SYSTEM; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; TESTIS FUNCTION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; FERTILITY; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 85014178015     PISSN: 10432760     EISSN: 18793061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2017.02.005     Document Type: Review

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