Endocrine Abstracts

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...

Studies on the lipid emulsion for total parenteral nutrition (TPN) for the premature human infant are limited. We investigated the effects of modifying the fatty acid composition of TPN on the growth and development of the preterm piglet.Piglets delivered by Caesarean section on day 112 of gestation (term = 115 days) received an enteral diet (E: n=6) or TPN solution plus Intralipid (54% 18:2, 25% 18:1; I: n=6) or ClinOleic (17% 18:2, 65% 18:1; C: n=6) fo...