Hormonal and metabolic adaptation to fasting: Effects on the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis and reproductive performance of rabbit does

Domestic Animal Endocrinology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-122

  Brecchia, Gabriele ^a   Bonanno, Adriana ^b   Galeati, Giovanna ^c   Federici, Claudia ^a   Maranesi, Margherita ^a   Gobbetti, Anna ^d   Zerani, Massimo ^d   Boiti, Cristiano ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Scienze Biopatologiche ed Igiene delle Produzioni Animali ed Alimentari   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Estradiol 17 ; Fasting; Insulin; Leptin; LH; Rabbit; T3

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN; HORMONE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LIOTHYRONINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METABOLISM; OVARY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RABBIT; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FASTING; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVARY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCTION; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 33744540005     PISSN: 07397240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.domaniend.2005.09.006     Document Type: Article

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