Impacts of arginine nutrition on embryonic and fetal development in mammals

Amino Acids

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 241-256

  Wu, Guoyao ^a,b   Bazer, Fuller W ^a   Satterfield, M Carey ^a   Li, Xilong ^a   Wang, Xiaoqiu ^a   Johnson, Gregory A ^a   Burghardt, Robert C ^a   Dai, Zhaolai ^b   Wang, Junjun ^b   Wu, Zhenlong ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arginine; Cell signaling; Embryos; Nutrition; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; ORNITHINE; POLYAMINE; PROLINE; RAPAMYCIN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMNION FLUID; ANGIOGENESIS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONCEPTION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO MEMBRANE; FETUS CELL; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GESTATION PERIOD; GILT (SWINE); HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LITTER SIZE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PIGLET; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; POLYAMINE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SHEEP; SPECIES COMPARISON; UTERUS GROWTH;

ANIMALS; ARGININE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; MICE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POLYAMINES; PREGNANCY; RATS; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; RATTUS; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 84880845050     PISSN: 09394451     EISSN: 14382199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00726-013-1515-z     Document Type: Review

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