Nutritional skewing of conceptus sex in sheep: Effects of a maternal diet enriched in rumen-protected polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA)

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Green, Mark P ^a,b   Spate, Lee D ^a   Parks, Tina E ^a   Kimura, Koji ^a,c   Murphy, Clifton N ^a   Williams, Jim E ^a   Kerley, Monty S ^a   Green, Jonathan A ^a   Keisler, Duane H ^a   Roberts, R Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; PROGESTERONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TAU INTERFERON; INTERFERON; PLACENTA PROTEIN; TROPHOBLAST PROTEIN 1; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DIETARY INTAKE; EWE; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LIVESTOCK; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; BREEDING; FAT INTAKE; FETUS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RUMINANT STOMACH; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ANIMALS; DIETARY FATS; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FEMALE; FETUS; INTERFERON TYPE I; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; RUMEN; SEX RATIO; SHEEP;

EID: 45949105544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-6-21     Document Type: Article

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