Prenatal corticosterone altered glucocorticoid receptor and glucocorticoid metabolic enzyme gene expression in chicken ovary
Objective: The acute stress response is an adaptive physiological mechanism which allows an organism to respond and survive deleterious stimuli in the surrounding environment. In mammals, prenatal glucocorticoids exposure (GCs) reprograms offspring phenotype and reproductive performance. In the pres...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2016-05-01
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| Series: | Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2305050016300525 |