Associations between lipid metabolism and fertility in the dairy cow

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-61

  Wathes, D Claire ^a   Clempson, Andrew M ^a   Pollott, Geoff E ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

antioxidants; energy balance; foam cells; mitochondria; reactive oxygen species

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN 4; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; HORMONE; HORMONE SENSITIVE LIPASE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LIPID; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; OLEIC ACID; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SOMATOMEDIN C; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 2;

ANTIOXIDANT RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BODY CONSTITUTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONCEPTION; DAIRY CATTLE; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY YIELD; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FERTILITY; FOAM CELL; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNE STATUS; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LACTATION; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIPID STORAGE; LIPOGENESIS; LONGEVITY; MACROPHAGE FUNCTION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MILK PRODUCTION; MILK YIELD; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOPHAGY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OVARY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY RATE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; SYNTHESIS; UTERUS; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LACTATION; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; MITOCHONDRIA; OVARY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; UTERUS;

EID: 84871627423     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD12272     Document Type: Article

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