Effect of fetal thyroidectomy on brown adipose tissue and thermoregulation in newborn lambs

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 995-1002

  Schermer, Samantha J ^a   Bird, Jane A ^b   Lomax, Michael A ^a   Shepherd, David A L ^b   Symonds, Michael E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; LIPID; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS SURGERY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOTHERMIA; LAMB; LIPID COMPOSITION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; NONSHIVERING THERMOGENESIS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHEEP; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0029797119     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD9960995     Document Type: Article

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