Role of thyroid hormones in the developmental control of tissue glycogen in fetal sheep near term

Experimental Physiology

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1079-1087

  Forhead, Alison J ^a   Cutts, Samantha ^a   Matthews, Phillippa A ^a   Fowden, Abigail L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; HYDROCORTISONE; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SKELETAL MUSCLE; THYROIDECTOMY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLYCOGEN; HYDROCORTISONE; LIVER GLYCOGEN; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; THYROID HORMONES; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 70349246845     PISSN: 09580670     EISSN: 1469445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/expphysiol.2009.048751     Document Type: Article

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