Maternal nutrition induces gene expression changes in fetal muscle and adipose tissues in sheep

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Peñagaricano, Francisco ^a   Wang, Xin ^b   Rosa, Guilherme ^a   Radunz, Amy E ^c   Khatib, Hasan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN RIVER FALLS   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal programming; Maternal nutrition; RNA sequencing; Sheep; Transcriptome analysis

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADIPOGENESIS; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALFALFA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CALORIC INTAKE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY FIBER; EWE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS (ANATOMY); FOOD QUALITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIPOGENESIS; LONGISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; MAIZE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; ORGANOGENESIS; PERIRENAL ADIPOSE TISSUE; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PROTEIN INTAKE; RNA SEQUENCE; SHEEP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; DOMESTIC SHEEP; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALIA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; OVIS ARIES; ZEA MAYS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PREGNANCY; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84924288190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-1034     Document Type: Article

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