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Postnatal glucocorticoid exposure alters the adult phenotype.
American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology - 1 Jul 2004
He Jing, Varma Amit, Weissfeld Lisa A, Devaskar Sherin U
Abstract excerpt
We examined the effect of six doses of dexamethasone (Dex) administered daily (2-7 days of age) to postnatal rats on body weight gain, food and water intake, peripheral hormonal/metabolic milieu, and hypothalamic neuropeptides that regulate food intake. We observed a Dex-induced acute (3 days of age) suppression of endogenous corticosterone and an increase in circulating leptin concentrations that were associated...
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