Effects of pituitary hormone deficiency on growth and glucose metabolism of the sheep fetus

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 4812-4820

  Fowden, A L ^a   Forhead, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CATECHOLAMINE; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; INSULIN; NORADRENALIN; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; EWE; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE OXIDATION; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MALNUTRITION; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; EATING; FASTING; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MATERNAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; NOREPINEPHRINE; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY HORMONES; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

EID: 34748890162     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0639     Document Type: Article

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