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Dexamethasone Use During Pregnancy: Potential Adverse Effects on Embryonic Skeletogenesis
12 Sept 2014
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Glucocorticoids are important regulators of cell differentiation and mesenchymal cell lineage commitment during skeletogenesis. In clinical practice, it has been difficult to study the effects of glucocorticoids on target tissues because patients taking glucocorticoids often suffer from adverse skeletal effects. Dexamethasone (Dex) is a long-acting synthetic corticosteroid hormone that ranks amongst the most...
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