Glucocorticoids and the preparation for life after birth: are there long-term consequences of the life insurance?
Proceedings of The Nutrition SocietyPublished 1 February 1998Open access
Abigail L. Fowden, Juan Li, Alison J. Forhead
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In mammals, survival both before and after birth depends on a number of key physiological processes such as the provision of 02, a supply of oxidative substrates and a means of removing the waste products of metabolism.
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Period before term (d) Fig. 1. Mean fetal concentrations of plasma cortisol with respect to time period (d) from delivery in the sheep (O), pig (0), man (A), guinea-pig (U), and horse (A). (I), Labour; B, birth. (Data from Silver & Fowden, 1988.
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