Number of conceptuses in utero affects porcine fetal muscle development

Reproduction

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 443-454

  Town, S C ^a   Putman, C T ^a   Turchinsky, N J ^a   Dixon, W T ^a   Foxcroft, George R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN WEIGHT; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LIVER WEIGHT; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; ORGANOGENESIS; OVULATION; PARITY; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SWINE; UTERINE TUBE LIGATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LITTER SIZE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOSINS; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SWINE;

SUIDAE;

EID: 6344278599     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00069     Document Type: Article

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