Nutritionally induced relationships between insulin levels during the weaning-to-ovulation interval and reproductive characteristics in multiparous sows: II. Luteal development, progesterone and conceptus development and uniformity

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-68

  Wientjes, Jgm ^a   Soede, N M ^a   van den Brand, H ^a   Kemp, B ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LACTOSE; PROGESTERONE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CALORIC INTAKE; CORPUS LUTEUM; DIET; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; OVULATION; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCTION; SWINE; TIME; WEANING;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CORPUS LUTEUM; DIET; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LACTOSE; OVULATION; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; REPRODUCTION; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; WEANING;

GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 84855722378     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2011.01802.x     Document Type: Article

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