Evaluation of lactational parameters after alcohol administration for four days during early or midlactation in the rat

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 799-803

  Subramanian, Marappa G ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Lactation; Prolactin; Rat; Suckling

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; PROLACTIN;

ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; LACTATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; RAT; SUCKLING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030843309     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1997.tb03842.x     Document Type: Article

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