Acute fasting before conception affects metabolic and endocrine status without impacting follicle and oocyte development and embryo gene expression in the rabbit

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 759-768

  Garcia Garcia R M ^a   Rebollar, P G ^b   Arias Alvarez M ^a   Sakr, O G ^b,f   Bermejo Alvarez P ^c   Brecchia, G ^d   Gutierrez Adan, A ^c   Zerani, M ^e   Boiti, C ^d   Lorenzo, P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Electrotechnical Section   (Spain)

^c INIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^f CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

apoptosis; maternal embryo interaction

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 4; INSULIN; LEPTIN; PROGESTERONE; PROTEIN P53; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; ATRESIA; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CELL NUCLEUS; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; CYTOPLASM; DIET RESTRICTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; H2AFZ GENE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LUTEAL PHASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULLIPARA; NUTRITION; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SHC1 SHC GENE; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY COMPOSITION; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESTRADIOL; FASTING; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INSULIN; LEPTIN; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRIGLYCERIDES;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 79960969394     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD10298     Document Type: Article

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