...R.O. Jones; R.D. Murray; G. Meschia; F.C. Battaglia The extraction of oxygen by the uterus in the term rabbit has been found to be very high. During post-term pregnancy, the fetuses of the rabbit are approximately 40% larger, despite a reduction in placental weight of approximately 30%. The purpose...

...M.C. Elphick; J.L. Edson; D. Hull Glucose infusions given intravenously to 28-day-pregnant rabbits increased maternal and fetal plasma immunoreactive insulin levels and decreased maternal concentrations of circulating free fatty acid (FFA). Fetal plasma FFA were only slightly depressed...

...M.C. Elphick; J.L. Edson; J.P. Lawlor; D. Hull The effect of 48 h maternal starvation on the composition of fetal rabbit brown and white adipose tissue was examined. Compared with fed control rabbits, adipose tissue triglyceride fatty acids took on a composition more like that of maternal plasma...

...William Taeusch, jr.; Andrew Patterson; Laura Williams; Eleanor Colle Concentrations of plasma glucocorticoids were measured in fetal and newborn rabbits at various stages of late gestation after injections of heroin, saline, ACTH, or glucocorticoid. No change in blood corticoid levels were found...

... to the inclusion of protein molecules in the mucosa in process of absorption. Rabbits do not absorb large quantities of protein after birth, and the experiment has now been repeated on them. The gastrointestinal tract of suckled rabbits also grew rapidly in the first 24 h, but again not in those that were given...

...LeRoy C. Mims; James A. Pascale Term, food-water deprived newborn rabbits exposed to a cold environment for 48 h demonstrated a significant decrease in total lung lipid (p < 0.01), total triglyceride (p < 0.001), total phospholipid (p < 0.05), and total phosphatidylcholine (p < 0.025...

... activity of lungs obtained from late fetal and neonatal rabbits has been studied and the results correlated to the phospholipid content of lungs of similar ages. Isolated lungs were perfused with a medium which contained cold and radioactive triglyceride, and the release of fatty acids into the perfusion...