Influence of thyrotrophin-releasing hormone on thermoregulatory adaptation after birth in near-term lambs delivered by Caesarean section

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 979-987

  Heasman, Lindsay ^a,b   Clarke, Lynne ^a,c   Symonds, Michael E ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ADAS BOXWORTH   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GLYCOGEN; HYDROCORTISONE; LIOTHYRONINE; OXYGEN; PROTIRELIN; THYROXINE; THYROXINE DEIODINASE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CESAREAN SECTION; COLON; DNA CONTENT; FEMALE; GLYCOGEN LIVER LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LAMB; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG WEIGHT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SHEEP; SHIVERING; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 0032877026     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0958067099018576     Document Type: Article

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