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Reproductive performance in rats with different histories of malnutrition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Janina R. Galler  and
Gary Zartarian
Janina R. Galler
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Gary Zartarian
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Abstract

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1. Reproductive competence, as measured by weight gain during pregnancy, duration of pregnancy and foetal outcome, was assessed in primiparous rats (4–6 months of age) with various histories of malnutrition.

2. Although weight gain during pregnancy was reduced in rats with intergenerational malnutrition, the duration of pregnancy and number of live births did not differ from well-fed controls, suggesting adaptation of these measures to long-term dietary deprivation.

3. Rats malnourished from birth through pregnancy (one generation of malnutrition) had fewer live births than did rats with chronic, intergenerational malnutrition or well-fed control rats.

4. Gestation was prolonged and weight gain accelerated among female rats with histories of intergenerational malnutrition, who had been provided with an adequate diet from birth through pregnancy.

Type
Papers of direct relevance to Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , March 1981 , pp. 251 - 255
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1981

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