Exercise during pregnancy and maternal and fetal plasma corticosterone and androstenedione in rats

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 271, Issue 5 34-5, 1996, Pages

  Carlberg, Karen A ^a   Alvin, Barbara L ^b   Gwosdow, Andrea R ^b  

^a EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

blood sampling; cardiac puncture; fetal blood; halothane; prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; CORTICOSTERONE; HALOTHANE;

ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EXERCISE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL BLOOD; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

EID: 0029852874     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.1996.271.5.e896     Document Type: Article

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