Prenatal dexamethasone exposure induces changes in nonhuman primate offspring cardiometabolic and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function.

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Published in J Clin Invest on March 22, 2007

Authors

Annick de Vries1, Megan C Holmes, Areke Heijnis, Jürgen V Seier, Joritha Heerden, Johan Louw, Sonia Wolfe-Coote, Michael J Meaney, Naomi S Levitt, Jonathan R Seckl

Author Affiliations

1: Endocrinology Unit, University of Edinburgh, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

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