Hormones and metabolites of arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) in response to season, starvation and re-feeding

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 287-294

  Fuglei, E ^a   Aanestad, M ^b   Berg, J P ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b AKER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic foxes; Fasting; Free fatty acid; Reverse triiodothyronine; Svalbard; Thyroxin; Triiodothyronine; hydroxybutyrate

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; 3,3',5' TRIIODOTHYRONINE; FATTY ACID; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ARTICLE; FOOD; FOX; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; LIGHT; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; REFEEDING; SEASONAL VARIATION; STARVATION; TEMPERATURE;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; CANIDAE; LAGOPUS; VULPES;

EID: 0033883112     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(00)00211-7     Document Type: Article

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