Hormonal changes associated with the transition between nursing and natural fasting in northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 78-83

  Ortiz, Rudy M ^a,b   Houser, Dorian S ^c   Wade, Charles E ^b   Ortiz, C Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Bioimimetica   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,3',5' TRIIODOTHYRONINE; HYDROCORTISONE; LEPTIN; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENT; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GROWTH; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEAL; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; WEANING;

EID: 12244293399     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6480(02)00572-5     Document Type: Article

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