The role of specific macronutrient availability in the effect of food restriction on length of lactational diestrus in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 409-414

  Woodside, Barbara ^a   Abizaid, Alfonso ^a   Caporale, Mirella ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anovulation; Food availability; Ingestive behavior; Lactation; Milk production

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; DIET RESTRICTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MILK PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0032098526     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00128-0     Document Type: Article

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