CORTICOSTEROID INHIBITION OF ADRENOCORTICOTROPHIN SECRETION IN THE FOETAL SHEEP
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Bioscientifica in Journal of Endocrinology
- Vol. 72 (2) , 245-246
- https://doi.org/10.1677/joe.0.0720245
Abstract
Corticosteroids [dexamethasone was given] can regulate ACTH secretion from the pituitary gland of the fetal sheep. Some of the rise in cortisol concentration in fetal plasma during hypoxemia may be of maternal origin.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- PROTEIN BINDING OF PLASMA CORTISOL IN THE FOETAL LAMB NEAR TERMJournal of Endocrinology, 1975
- Interference with Feedback Inhibition of Adrenocorticotropin Release by Protein Binding of CorticosteroneEndocrinology, 1966