Bethania J Dávila Ruiz, Carl R Dahlen, Kacie L McCarthy, Joel S Caton, Jennifer L Hurlbert, Friederike Baumgaertner, Ana Clara B Menezes, Wellison J S Diniz, Sarah R Underdahl, James D Kirsch, Kevin K Sedivec, Kerri A Bochantin, Pawel P Borowicz, Sebastián Canovas, Lawrence P Reynolds
The effect of vitamins and minerals supplementation (VTM) and/or two rates of body weight gain (GAIN) on bovine placental vascular development and angiogenic factors gene expression were evaluated in two experiments: In Exp. 1, crossbred Angus heifers ( n = 34) were assigned to VTM/NoVTM treatments at least 71 days before breeding to allow changes in the mineral status. At breeding, through artificial insemination (AI), heifers were assigned to low-gain (LG) 0.28 kg/d or moderate-gain (MG) 0.79 kg/d treatments, resulting in NoVTM-LG (Control; n = 8), NoVTM-MG ( n = 8), VTM-LG ( n = 9), and VTM-MG ( n = 9) until day 83 of gestation; In Exp...
March 2, 2024: Veterinary Sciences