Maternal dietary L-carnitine supplementation influences fetal carnitine status and stimulates carnitine palmitoyltransferase and pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activities in swine

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2356-2362

  Xi, Lin ^a   Brown, Kelly ^b   Woodworth, Jason ^c   Shim, Kwanseob ^a   Johnson, Bradley ^b   Odle, Jack ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Lonza Inc USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLCARNITINE; CARNITINE; CARNITINE PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CARNITINE; CARNITINE O-PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FETUS; KINETICS; LIVER; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MYOCARDIUM; PREGNANCY; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX; SWINE;

GLYCINE MAX; SUIDAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 57349171384     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.108.095638     Document Type: Article

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