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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"low birth weight pig"”.
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Identifying, understanding and harnessing the beneficial impact of nutritional interactions to optimise the performance and carcass quality of low birth weight pigs
… to determine the key characteristics of low birth weightpigs in a commercial setting as well as to investigate a number of interventionstrategies within a research setting to uplift the lifetime growth and carcassperformance of low birth weight pigs to levels comparable to average …
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Regulation of protein metabolism in skeletal muscle of low-birth-weight neonatal pigs
… accretion and protein deposition in muscle. Low-birth-weight (LBWT) neonates experience restricted muscle development, which leads to impaired postnatal growth and metabolic disorders later in life. The overall hypothesis of this dissertation was that dysfunction of myogenic satellite cells …
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Glucose Metabolism in Low Birth Weight Neonatal Pigs
… and is dominated by skeletal muscle hypertrophy. Low birth weight (LBWT) neonates experience restricted growth and development of skeletal muscle, leading to metabolic perturbations later in life. The overall hypothesis of this dissertation was that in utero disturbances in glucose metabolism and …