Porcine fetal and maternal adrenocorticotropic hormone and corticosteroid concentrations during gestation and their relation to fetal size

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-106

  Klemcke, Harold G ^a   Christenson, Ronald K ^a  

^a U S MEAT ANIMAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN;

AMNION BAND; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; FETUS MEMBRANE; FETUS WASTAGE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWINE;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; CORTISONE; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SERUM ALBUMIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TRANSCORTIN;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030969891     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.1.99     Document Type: Article

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