Factors affecting the response to insulin in the normal subhuman pregnant primate

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Abstract

The concentrations of plasma glucose, free fatty acids, insulin, growth hormone, and placental prolactin in subhuman primate fetal and maternal plasma were examined following intravascular administration of insulin and glucagon to the fetus and mother. The neonatal plasma responses to these same stimuli were also examined.

Authors

Ronald A. Chez, Daniel H. Mintz, Edgar O. Horger III, Donald L. Hutchinson