Dietary l-arginine supplementation enhances placental growth and reproductive performance in sows

Amino Acids

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2207-2214

  Gao, Kaiguo ^a,b   Jiang, Zongyong ^b   Lin, Yingcai ^b   Zheng, Chuntian ^b   Zhou, Guilian ^b   Chen, Fang ^b   Yang, Lin ^a   Wu, Guoyao ^c  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Estradiol; l Arginine; Piglet; Placenta; Reproductive performance; Sow

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ESTRADIOL; ORNITHINE; PROGESTERONE; PROLINE; UREA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HORMONE RELEASE; LITTER SIZE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; PARITY; PIGLET; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SWINE; WEANING;

ALANINE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ARGININE; BIRTH WEIGHT; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; GENETIC FITNESS; LITTER SIZE; ORGAN SIZE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; SWINE; UREA;

MAMMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 84862767862     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-011-0960-9     Document Type: Article

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