Maternal diabetes mellitus, a rat model for nonthyroidal illness: Correction of hypothyroxinemia with thyroxine treatment does not improve fetal thyroid hormone status

Thyroid

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-87

  Calvo, Rosa ^a   De Escobar, Gabriella Morreale ^a   Del Rey, Francisco Escobar ^a   Obregón, Maria Jesús ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,3',5' TRIIODOTHYRONINE; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LIOTHYRONINE; STREPTOZOCIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; THYROXINE DEIODINASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FETUS; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031000767     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.1997.7.79     Document Type: Article

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