Body growth and food intake in moderately and severely malnourished rats

Growth, Development and Aging

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 133-142

  Orden, Alicia B ^a,b   Muñe, María C ^a,c   Pucciarelli, Héctor M ^a,c  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS VETERINARIAS   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Provincial del Sudoeste   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Growth; Longitudinal studies; Malnutrition; Nutritional adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; FEMALE; GROWTH; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUTRITION DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0033498582     PISSN: 10411232     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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