Effects of periconceptional undernutrition on the initiation of parturition in sheep

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 288, Issue 1 57-1, 2005, Pages

  Kumarasamy, Vasumathy ^a   Mitchell, Murray D ^a   Bloomfield, Frank H ^a,b   Oliver, Mark H ^a   Campbell, Melanie E ^b   Challis, John R G ^b   Harding, Jane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Estrogen progesterone ratio; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Prostaglandin

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; HYDROCORTISONE; PROGESTERONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHESIS; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DINOPROST; DINOPROSTONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PROGESTERONE; SHEEP;

EID: 11144281803     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00357.2004     Document Type: Article

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