Maternal low-protein diet programmes offspring growth in association with alterations in yolk leptin deposition and gene expression in yolk-sac membrane, hypothalamus and muscle of developing Langshan chicken embryos

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 848-857

  Rao, Kaiqing ^a,b   Xie, Jingjing ^a   Yang, Xiaojing ^a   Chen, Lei ^a   Grossmann, Roland ^c   Zhao, Ruqian ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chickens; Corticosterone; Eggs; Gene expression; Hypothalamus; Leptin; Maternal low protein diet; Muscle; Thyroid hormone; Yolk sac membrane

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA(OR 20BETA) HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; LIOTHYRONINE; MESSENGER RNA; PREALBUMIN; PROTIRELIN; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; THYROXINE; HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; HATCHING; HYPOTHALAMUS; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PROGENY; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; UPREGULATION; YOLK SAC; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; CHICK EMBRYO; DIET; EGG YOLK; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

GALLUS GALLUS;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; CHICK EMBRYO; DIET; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; EGG YOLK; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEPTIN; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; YOLK SAC;

EID: 70449730479     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114509276434     Document Type: Article

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