Blood corticosterone concentration reaches critical illness levels early during acute malnutrition in the weanling mouse

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 231, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 264-268

  Monk, Jennifer M ^a   Makinen, Kimberley ^a   Shrum, Bradly ^a   Woodward, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood; Corticosterone; Energy deficiency; Mice; Protein deficiency

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CORTICOSTERONE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC STRAIN; KWASHIORKOR; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MARASMUS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; PURIFICATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 33644699941     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153537020623100304     Document Type: Article

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