Exposure to dexamethasone during late gestation causes female-specific decreases in core body temperature and prepro-thyrotropin-releasing hormone expression in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 108, Issue , 2012, Pages 6-12

  Carbone, David L ^a   Zuloaga, Damian G ^a   Lacagnina, Anthony F ^a   McGivern, Robert F ^b   Handa, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core body temperature; Dexamethasone; Glucocorticoid; Thyroid hormone; Thyrotropin releasing hormone

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; LIOTHYRONINE; MESSENGER RNA; PREPRO THYROTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE; PREPRO-THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTIRELIN; THYROXINE;

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 85027920722     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.07.010     Document Type: Article

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