| Dietary supplementation with 0.4% L-arginine between days 14 and 30 of gestation enhances NO and polyamine syntheses and water transport in porcine placentaeOA |
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| 作者姓名： | Cassandra M.Herring Fuller W.Bazer Gregory A.Johnson Heewon Seo Shengdi Hu Mohammed Elmetwally Wenliang He Daniel B.Long Guoyao Wu |
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| 作者单位： | 1. Department of Animal Science,Texas A&M University;2. Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences,Texas A&M University |
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| 摘 要： | Background:Most embryonic loss in pigs occurs before d 30 of gestation.Dietary supplementation with L-arginine(Arg) during early gestation can enhance the survival and development of conceptuses(embryo/fetus and its extraembryonic membranes) in gilts.However,the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown.Methods:Between d 14 and 30 of gestation,each gilt was fed daily 2 kg of a corn-and soybean-meal based diet(12% crude protein) supplemented with either 0.4% Arg(as Arg-HCl) or an isonitrogenou...
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