A new 'crowded uterine horn' mouse model for examining the relationship between foetal growth and adult obesity

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 162-167

  Coe, Benjamin L ^a   Kirkpatrick, James R ^a   Taylor, Julia A ^a   Vom Saal, Frederick S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MACROSOMIA; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS HORN; WEANING;

ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL MACROSOMIA; MALE; OBESITY; OVARIECTOMY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 38449106551     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2007.00195.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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