Intra-uterine growth retardation affects birthweight and postnatal development in pigs, impairing muscle accretion, duodenal mucosa morphology and carcass traits

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 387-395

  Alvarenga, A L N ^a   Chiarini Garcia, H ^a   Cardeal, P C ^a   Moreira, L P ^a   Foxcroft, G R ^b   Fontes, D O ^a   Almeida, F R C L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

growth performance; intestinal development; muscle histomorphometry; neonatal organ weights.

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CARCASS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENUM; DUODENUM MUCOSA; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FEMALE; HEART WEIGHT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KIDNEY MASS; LARGE INTESTINE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIVER WEIGHT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE GROWTH; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PANCREAS; PARITY; PIGLET; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL GROWTH; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLEEN WEIGHT; TESTIS; WEANING; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BRAZIL; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 84873837092     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD12021     Document Type: Article

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