Early weaning induces jejunal ornithine decarboxylase and cell proliferation in neonatal rats

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 128, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1636-1642

  Lin, Chuan Hao ^a   Correia, Leena ^a   Tolia, Ketan ^a   Gesell, Mark S ^b   Tolia, Vasundhara ^a   Lee, Ping Cheung ^c   Luk, Gordon D ^b  

^a CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; Intestinal growth; Ornithine decarboxylase; Rats; Weaning

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; SUCRASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DNA CONTENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE CELL; JEJUNUM MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; ORGAN GROWTH; PROTEIN CONTENT; RAT; WEANING;

EID: 0031680251     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/128.10.1636     Document Type: Article

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