Pregnancy-specific protein B and progesterone concentrations in relation to nutritional regimen, placental mass and pregnancy outcome in growing adolescent ewes carrying singleton fetuses

Journal of Reproduction and Fertility

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-58

  Wallace, J M ^a   Aitken, R P ^a   Cheyne, M A ^a   Humblot, P ^b  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNCEIA Union Nationale des Cooperatives d'Elevage et d'Insemination Animale   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE;

ABORTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; FOOD INTAKE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SHEEP; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0031050608     PISSN: 00224251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/jrf.0.1090053     Document Type: Article

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