The hormonal regulation of premigratory fat deposition and winter fattening in red-winged blackbirds

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 239-249

  Hintz, Jake V ^a  

^a TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fat deposition; Free fatty acids; Glucagon; Glucose; Lipolytic; Migration; Red winged blackbirds

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCAGON BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCOGENOLYSIS; HORMONAL REGULATION; LIPID STORAGE; LIPOGENESIS; LIPOLYSIS; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; WINTER;

AGELAIUS; AVES;

EID: 0034102248     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(99)00179-8     Document Type: Article

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