ea0009p63 | Growth and development | BES2005
Cordrey A
, Laws J
, Perkins K
, Lean I
, Buckingham J
, Jarvelin M
, Clark L
Low birth weight infants have higher mortality rates and are at a greater risk of impaired immunity in later life than are their normal-birth-weight counterparts. The aim was to investigate the effect of maternal dietary fat supplementation during the first or second half of gestation on the plasma immunoglobulin A concentration in her offspring.Six pregnant sows were randomly allocated to receive 10% extra energy derived from dietary fat during either t...