Endocrine Abstracts

Thyroid hormones play an important roles during pregnancy and lactation. During pregnancy the foetus depends entirely on the dam for the supply of nutrients and after parturition for the formation of colostrum. To meet out these needs the dam attempts to reset up its endocrine function including thyroid gland. There is also a change in body metabolic rate and some of the related biochemical components which are mainly controlled by thyroid hormones. Therefore an experiment was...