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Prenatal Dexamethasone Exposure Induced Ovarian Developmental Toxicity and Transgenerational Effect in Rat Offspring.
Endocrinology - 1 Mar 2018
Lv Feng, Wan Yang, Chen Yunxi, Pei Linguo, Luo Daji, Fan Guanlan, Luo Mengcheng, Xu Dan, Wang Hui
Abstract excerpt
Prenatal dexamethasone exposure (PDE) induces multiorgan developmental toxicities in offspring. Here we verified the transgenerational inheritance effect of ovarian developmental toxicity by PDE and explored its intrauterine programming mechanism. Pregnant rats subcutaneously received 0.2 mg/kg/d dexamethasone from gestational day (GD) 9 to GD20. A subgroup was euthanized for fetuses on GD20, and the other group...
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