Daily endogenous cortisol production and hydrocortisone pharmacokinetics in adult horses and neonatal foals

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 68-75

  Hart, Kelsey A ^a   Dirikolu, Levent ^b   Ferguson, Duncan C ^b   Norton, Natalie A ^a   Barton, Michelle H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE SODIUM SUCCINATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOAL; HORSE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STEADY STATE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; HORSES; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KINETICS; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 84855283917     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.73.1.68     Document Type: Article

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