Effects of thyroid hormone deficiency on mice selected for increased and decreased body weight and fatness

Genetical Research

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-53

  Bünger, Lutz ^a   Wallace, Helen ^b   Bishop, John O ^a   Hastings, Ian M ^a   Hill, William G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT; GANCICLOVIR; GROWTH HORMONE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEMIZYGOSITY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MOUSE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; THYROID GLAND; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031695561     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672398003346     Document Type: Article

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