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bp0019cpr16 | Pregnancy, Parturition and The Neonate | CPR2013

Roles of selected nutrients in development of the porcine conceptus during pregnancy

Fuller W. Bazer Fuller W. , Jinyoung Kim Jinyoung , Gwonhwa Song Gwonhwa , Hakhyun Ka Hakhyun , Guoyao Wu Guoyao , Johnson Gregory A. , Vallet Jeffrey L.

Conceptus development in mammals depends on an intra-uterine environment filled with histotroph that includes molecules that are secreted by uterine epithelia and/or selectively transported into the uterine lumen. In pigs, total recoverable glucose, fructose, arginine, leucine and glutamine increase in histotroph with advancing days of the peri-implantation period of pregnancy and in allantoic fluid later in gestation. During pregnancy, the uterine luminal epithelium (LE...