Cortisol in fetal fluids and the fetal adrenal at parturition in the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 651-655

  Ingram, J N ^a,b   Shaw, G ^a   Renfree, M B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

ADRENAL FUNCTION; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FLUID BALANCE; MARSUPIAL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALIA; MACROPODIDAE; MACROPUS EUGENII; METATHERIA;

EID: 0032992125     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.3.651     Document Type: Article

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