Oster, Michael: Hepatic and muscular transcriptomic responses of porcine progeny to gestational diets varying in protein content. - Bonn, 2012. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5n-29702,
author = {{Michael Oster}},
title = {Hepatic and muscular transcriptomic responses of porcine progeny to gestational diets varying in protein content},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2012,
month = oct,

note = {Inadequate maternal protein supply during gestation represents an environmental factor that is known to affect physiological signaling pathways and impacts the phenotype of the progeny in animal models and in humans with long-term consequences for growth, function and structure of various tissues. The provoked intrauterine adaptive responses are termed 'Fetal Programming'. Hypothesising that the progeny's transcriptome is persistently altered by maternal diets, we used a porcine model to monitor the longitudinal expression changes in liver and muscle tissue to identify pathways relevant to fetal initiation of postnatal growth and development. Throughout the whole pregnancy nulliparous German landrace sows were fed one of three isoenergetic diets differing in their protein:carbohydrate ratio, resulting in a low protein diet (LP: 6.5 % crude protein), a high protein diet (HP: 30 % crude protein) and an adequate protein diet (AP: 12.1 % crude protein). All progeny was nursed by foster sows that received a standard diet. Postweaning, the progeny was fed standard diets ad libitum. The progeny's liver (n = 192) and muscle tissue M. longissimus dorsi; n = 72) were collected at 94 days post conception (dpc) and 1, 28, and 188 days post natum (dpn) for expression profiling. The analyses included comparisons between dietary groups within ontogenetic stages as well as comparisons between ontogenetic stages within dietary groups to separate diet-specific transcriptional changes and maturation processes. An in utero exposure to adverse gestational protein diets revealed a 'Programming' of the progeny's genome in a diet-, tissue- and stage-dependent manner. Transcriptional alterations during pre- and postnatal development differed considerably among dietary groups, particularly for genes related to energy metabolism, lipid metabolism, cell cycle regulation, organismal and cellular growth, and glucocorticoid receptor signaling. No single gene was found differentially expressed between the groups along all examined stages. The transcriptional responses in both HP and LP progeny were interpreted as the molecular equivalent to developmental plasticity which accounts for adaptation and maintenance of the organismal phenotype and affects signaling pathways related to energy utilisation. Obviously, the 'Fetal Programming' of the genome warrants adaptation processes regarding to compensatory growth, probably at the expense of a predisposition for metabolic disturbances up to adult stages.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/5124}
}

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