Pancreatic α cell function in the fetal foal during late gestation

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 697-705

  Fowden, A L ^a   Forhead, A J ^a   Bloomfield, M ^a   Taylor, P M ^a   Silver, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL FUNCTION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIET RESTRICTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCAGON BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HORSE; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MATERNAL PLASMA; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET ALPHA CELL; TIME;

EID: 0032808311     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0958067099018503     Document Type: Article

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