ANSC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Gilt-Edged Securities, Thermoregulation, Amenorrhoea

• School: Cornell University
• Department: Animal Science
• Course: ANSC 2120
• Professor: Debbie Cherney

Document Summary

Reproduction is an integrated process that involves and required (cid:1) (cid:1) normal function of most tissues in the body. For most individual nutrients, there are no major limitations (cid:1) (cid:1) to reproduction unless grossly deficient: combines inadequacies are a more typical problem. Stored/taken from liver and adipose tissues as well. Important points: prioritization: only healthy animals reproduce, partitioning of nutrients represents physiological, optimum reproductive performance requires optimum, energy supply is the most important aspect of nutrition nutrition for reproduction. Chronic under nutrition in female rats increases longevity and reproductive life span. Barker hypothesis heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and other adult diseases are linked to prenatal experience. Lecture 28: reproduction and nutrition: esp. maternal nutrition. Effect of dietary treatment on weight at conception and age at conception in rats conclusions: Food restriction in mother delays puberty of pups and reduces litter size. Maternal food restriction, but not pup food restriction did not impair lactation ability.