Title
Adrenocortical function in the fetal and newborn alpaca
Date Issued
01 January 1978
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Abstract
1. 1. In 15 unoperated pregnant alpacas, delivery occurred between 06.30 and 12.20. Operative manipulation altered this pattern. 2. 2. Adrenal weights and liver weights of spontaneously delivered newborn alpacas (crias) were significantly higher than those of prematurely delivered crias. 3. 3. Fetal plasma cortisol concentration was statistically significantly greater in two fetal alpacas that delivered spontaneously when compared with fetal plasma cortisol concentrations in fetuses in early gestation. © 1978.
Start page
79
End page
84
Volume
59
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Endocrinología, Metabolismo (incluyendo diabetes, hormonas)
Ciencia veterinaria
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0001813298
Source
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -- Part A: Physiology
ISSN of the container
03009629
DOI of the container
10.1016/0300-9629(78)90310-9
Source funding
Royal Society
Physiological Society Dale Fund
Sponsor(s)
P.W.N. wishes to thank the Royal Society for support through the Royal Society Latin American Research Exchange, and G.W.S. acknowledges receipt of a Physiological Society Dale Fund Award. Many other people in both Peru and Britain were active in their support of this work. In particular, we should like to thank Professor R. D. Keynes, FRS, and Dr. Carlos Monge of Cayetano Heredia University for many large and small, personal and scientific, assistances.
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