Placental metabolism: substrate requirements and the response to stress

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 51, Issue , 2016, Pages 25-35

  Vaughan, O R ^a   Fowden, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE;

ANIMAL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; METABOLISM; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; FETUS; GLUCOSE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84991573883     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rda.12797     Document Type: Review

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