Plasma thyroid hormone levels and iodothyronine deiodinase activity following an acute glucocorticoid challenge in embryonic compared with posthatch chickens

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-212

  Darras, V M ^a   Kotanen, S P ^a   Geris, K L ^a   Berghman, L R ^a   Kuhn E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEIODINATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HATCHING; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0030298015     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.0163     Document Type: Article

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