Liyuan Shi, Kun Kang, Zhisheng Wang, Junmei Wang, Jianxin Xiao, Quanhui Peng, Rui Hu, Jia Zhou, Xiaohong Zhang, Ziqi Yue, Huawei Zou, Bai Xue, Lizhi Wang
It has been confirmed that improving the energy level of the diet contributed to the greater reproductive performance and birth weight of calves in periparturient dairy cows. To investigate the effect of glucose on nutrient transport during fetal development, the bovine placental trophoblast cells (BPTCs) were cultured in media with different glucose concentrations (1, 2, 4, 8, or 16 mg/mL). Subsequently, the BPTCs were cultured in media with 1, 8 mg/mL glucose and 8 mg/mL glucose plus 100 nmol/L rapamycin (the inhibitor of mTOR pathway)...
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