Maternal nutritional management during gestation appears to modulate fetal development
and imprint offspring postnatal health and performance, via altered organ and tissue …

Fetal programming in ruminant animals: understanding the skeletal muscle development to
improve meat quality | Animal Frontiers | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content …

This comprehensive review highlights the intricate interplay between maternal factors and
the co-development of the microbiome and immune system in neonatal calves. Based on …

Simple Summary The intrauterine period plays a major role in skeletal muscle development
and metabolism, including the formation of muscle fibers and adipose and connective tissue …

Maternal nutrition during pregnancy can induce epigenetic alterations in the fetal genome,
such as changes in DNA methylation. It remains unclear whether these epigenetic …

The aim of this study was to estimate genotype by time-lagged heat stress (HS) variance
components as well as main and interaction SNP-marker effects for maternal HS during the …

To elucidate the mechanisms underlying maternal undernutrition (MUN)-induced fetal
skeletal muscle growth impairment in cattle, the longissimus thoracis muscle of Japanese …

While glucose is the primary fuel for fetal growth, the placenta utilizes the majority of glucose
taken up from the maternal circulation. Of the facilitative glucose transporters in the placenta …

A 2-yr study evaluated the growth and postvaccination immune response of beef calves born
from heifers offered no supplementation or pre-and postpartum supplementation of …

This study aimed to evaluate the differentially expressed genes (DEG), their biological
functions, and the main predictor genes in skeletal muscle of the offspring resulting from …