Thyroid hormones in grey seal pups (Halichoerus grypus)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 157-162

  Woldstad, Skjalg ^a   Jenssen, Bjørn Munro ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Growth; Marine mammals; Metabolism; Phocids; Pinnipeds; Thermoregulation; Thyroxine; Triiodothyron ine

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEAL; THERMOREGULATION; THYROID CELL; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALIA; GRYPUS; HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; MAMMALIA; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 0032935453     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(98)10160-5     Document Type: Article

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