Adipose tissue development during early postnatal life in ewe-reared lambs

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1015-1027

  Clarke, L ^a   Buss, D S ^a   Juniper, D T ^a   Lomax, M A ^a,b   Symonds, M E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; SOMATOMEDIN C; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LAMB; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID METABOLISM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN CONTENT; SHEEP; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE GROWTH; TISSUE LEVEL; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

EID: 0030730891     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.1997.sp004077     Document Type: Article

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