Effects of age and pregnancy on the circulatory activin response of sheep to acute inflammatory challenge by lipopolysaccharide

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 139-149

  McClure, L ^a   O'Connor, A E ^a   Hayward, S ^a   Jenkin, G ^a   Walker, D W ^a   Phillips, David J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; FOLLISTATIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FETUS CIRCULATION; FEVER; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEEP DISEASE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ACTIVINS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FETUS; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SHEEP;

EID: 17844400341     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/joe.1.06051     Document Type: Article

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