Effects of maternal alcohol consumption on the allometric growth of muscles in fetal and neonatal rats

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 164, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 167-173

  Nwaogu, I C ^a   Ihemelandu, E G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Allometric growth; Maternal; Muscles; Rat

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; MALE; MUSCLE GROWTH; MUSCLE MASS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; MALE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0033047184     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000016654     Document Type: Article

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