Low and high dietary protein: Carbohydrate ratios during pregnancy affect materno-fetal glucose metabolism in pigs

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 155-163

  Metges, Cornelia C ^a   Görs, Solvig ^a   Lang, Iris S ^a   Hammon, Harald M ^a   Brüssow, Klaus Peter ^b   Weitzel, Joachim M ^b   Nürnberg, Gerd ^c   Rehfeldt, Charlotte ^d   Otten, Winfried ^e  

^a Institute of Nutritional Physiology   (Germany)

^b Institute of Reproductive Biology   (Germany)

^c Institute of Genetics and Biometry   (Germany)

^d Institute of Muscle Biology and Growth   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON 13; ENZYME; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATASE; INOSITOL; INSULIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP); PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FETUS; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; GLUCOSE OXIDATION; GLUCOSE UTILIZATION; HIGH PROTEIN LOW CARBOHYDRATE DIET; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTRAVENOUS GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; LIVER; LOW PROTEIN HIGH CARBOHYDRATE DIET; MATERNAL BLOOD; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTAKE; SOW (SWINE); SWINE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRAIN; DIET; DIET, CARBOHYDRATE-RESTRICTED; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIETARY PROTEINS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETUS; GLUCAGON; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; INOSITOL; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LACTIC ACID; LIVER; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SWINE; UMBILICUS;

EID: 84892667946     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.113.182691     Document Type: Article

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