Changes in plasma arginine vasopressin concentration during lactation in rats

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 277-280

  Suzuki, Kazuyuki ^a,d   Koizumi, Nobuo ^b   Hirose, Hisashi ^a   Hokao, Ryoji ^c   Takemura, Naoyuki ^a   Motoyoshi, Shigekatsu ^a  

^a NIPPON VETERINARY AND LIFE SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c Imamichi Institute for Animal Reproduction   (Japan)

^d ZENYAKU KOGYO CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; LACTATION; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PREGNANCY; RAT; SUCKLING;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BLOOD; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; LACTATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM;

EID: 0033930765     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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