Metabolic Induction and Early Responses of Mouse Blastocyst Developmental Programming following Maternal Low Protein Diet Affecting Life-Long Health

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Eckert, Judith J ^a,b   Porter, Richard ^b   Watkins, Adam J ^b   Burt, Elizabeth ^b   Brooks, Suzanne ^b   Leese, Henry J ^c   Humpherson, Peter G ^d   Cameron, Iain T ^a   Fleming, Tom P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ASPARAGINE; ESTROGEN; GLUCOSE; INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; INSULIN; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; METHIONINE; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEIN S6; TAURINE; THREONINE; VALINE;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO INDUCTION; FEMALE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALE; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; TROPHECTODERM; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS FLUID;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CORTICOSTERONE; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HEALTH; INSULIN; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MICE; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UTERUS;

EID: 84871669165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052791     Document Type: Article

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