Hepatic Gene Expression Profiles of Growing Beef Steers Grazing High vs. Low Endophyte-Infected Tall Fescue Grass
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ABSTRACT: Neotyphodium coenophialum is an endophytic fungus that infects most tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) pastures that are commonly used in animal grazing systems in the United States. Beef cattle grazing such pastures are impaired in health and production performance, resulting in a large economic loss in US food-animal production systems. Based on the clinical symptoms and laboratory analyses of blood, it was hypothesized that such affected cattle display liver-specific changes in the expression of gene transcripts that are associated with the metabolic enzymes and transporters critical for beef health and performance. Microarray analysis using the GeneChip Bovine Genome Array (Affymetrix, Inc., Santa Clara, CA) was conducted to determine if grazing endophyte-infected tall fescue pastures affects the liver gene expression profiles of growing beef steers.
ORGANISM(S): Bos taurus
PROVIDER: GSE23894 | GEO | 2010/11/30
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA130443
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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