Maternal diet during pregnancy has tissue-specific effects upon fetal fatty acid composition and alters fetal immune parameters

Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Volumn 83, Issue 4-6, 2010, Pages 179-184

  Childs, Caroline E ^a,b   Romijn, Tessa ^b   Enke, Uta ^b   Hoile, Samuel ^b   Calder, Philip C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fetal; Immune; Omega 3

Indexed keywords

CD161 ANTIGEN; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; GAMMA INTERFERON; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 4; LINOLENIC ACID; LINSEED OIL; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; SOYBEAN OIL; SUNFLOWER OIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD3+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FOOD COMPOSITION; GESTATION PERIOD; IMMUNITY; LIPID COMPOSITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SALMON; THERAPY EFFECT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ALPHA-LINOLENIC ACID; ANIMALS; DIET; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; FETUS; INTERLEUKIN-4; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; GLYCINE MAX; HELIANTHUS; RATTUS;

EID: 78649445738     PISSN: 09523278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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