Endocrine Abstracts

Changes in maternal dietary intake during gestation can affect muscle development1 and may be linked to the catabolic actions of hormones, such as glucocorticoids, which inhibits the insulin like growth factor 1 (IGF1) pathway. This study examines the potential effects of glucocorticoids and skeletal muscle adaptations in seven-day-old offspring exposed to suboptimal gestational environments.Pregnant sows were randomly assigned to a commercial...

The identification and characterisation of unique gene profiles expressed in specific adipose tissue depots around the body could provide novel insights on fat development.We report a comprehensive analysis of transcriptome from the five major (epicardial, pericardial, perirenal, sternal and omental) adipose depots from one week old sheep. This study also provides an integrated view of the preservation and differences between mitochondrial gene co-expres...