Maternal fructose and/or salt intake and reproductive outcome in the rat: Effects on growth, fertility, sex ratio, and birth order

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Gray, Clint ^a,c   Long, Sophie ^a   Green, Charlotte ^a   Gardiner, Sheila M ^b   Craigon, Jim ^b   Gardner, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fertility; Fructose; Nutrition; Rat; Reproduction; Salt; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; FRUCTOSE; MONOSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; BIRTH ORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FETUS GROWTH; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SALT INTAKE; SEX RATIO; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBFERTILITY; SUGAR INTAKE; UTERUS HORN;

ANIMALS; BIRTH ORDER; EATING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FRUCTOSE; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 84886796947     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.109595     Document Type: Article

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