Evaluation and Characterization of Congenital Hypothyroidism in rdw Dwarf Rats

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 496-501

  Umezu, Motoaki ^a   Kagabu, Satoshi ^b   Jiang, Jinyi ^a   Sato, Eimei ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INBRED STRAIN; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; THYROXINE;

EID: 0031741164     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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