Biology of Reproduction Highlights
Biology of Reproduction Highlights
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生殖生物学亮点
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2006
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Patricia L. Magyar
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J. M. Wallace;Masatoshi Matsuzaki;J. Milne;M. Krisfalusi;Kiyoshi Miki;Patricia L. Magyar
Adolescent pregnancy and maternal overnourishment. In a paper on p. 231 of this issue, Wallace and colleagues provide important new results from a study of overnourished adolescent sheep in which maternal tissue synthesis has been shown to take priority and result in reduced placental growth and, consequently, a significant decrease in birth weight of the lamb. The authors provide results of a study to determine whether GH can influence fetal growth and body composition by increasing placental size or by altering maternal metabolism. The effects of exogenous GH were on maternal endocrinology, metabolism, and body composition; however, GH also increased fetal growth and fetal adiposity without affecting placental size. The results provide evidence that treatment of ewes with GH during late gestation can partially alleviate intrauterine growth retardation in overnourished primiparous ewes without affecting reduced placental growth that is characteristic of this sheep model for adolescent pregnancy in humans.