Impact of Nutritional Status on the Somatotropic Axis and Ghrelin in Phocid Seals

• Main Author: Dailey, Rachael
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: UNF Digital Commons 2013
• Subjects: Thesis; University of North Florida; UNF; Dissertations; Academic > UNF > Master of Science in Biology; Academic > UNF > Biology; marine mammal; pinniped; metabolic; endocrinology; nutrition; Biology; Comparative Nutrition; Zoology; Nes; Nes’; Elephant Seal; harbor seal; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/481; https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1503&context=etd

Metabolic hormones and their axes, including the target tissues and receptors, regulate the tissue specific utilization of nutrients with in the body. The purpose of this research was to understand the hormonal control of complex nutrient partitioning mechanisms involved in young, growing animals. S...