Article
Effects of thyroid hormone deficiency on mice selected for increased and decreased body weight and fatness.
Genetical research - 1 Aug 1998
Bünger L, Wallace H, Bishop J O, Hastings I M, Hill W G
Abstract excerpt
A study was undertaken to test whether the elimination of metabolic pathways strongly involved in growth and fatness, comprising thyroid hormones (TH) and growth hormone (GH), is responsible for a substantial part of the genetic change produced by selection. Lines used in this study have been sel...
Topics
- Animals
- Body Weight
- Crosses, Genetic
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Growth Hormone
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Obesity
- Pregnancy
- Selection, Genetic
- Sex Characteristics
- Thyroid Gland
- Thyroid Hormones