Project description:The liver of dairy cows naturally displays a series of metabolic adaptation during the periparturient period in response to the increasing nutrient requirement of lactation. The hepatic adaptation is partly regulated by insulin resistance and it is affected by the prepartal energy intake level of cows. We aimed to investigate the metabolic changes in the liver of dairy cows during the periparturient at gene expression level and to study the effect of prepartal energy level on the metabolic adaptation at gene expression level.B13:N13
Project description:Tissue from mammary, liver, and three adipose depots (mesenteric, omental, and subcutaneous) was collected at slaughter from a cow at peak lactation to examine gene expression profiles of 7872 sequences using a bovine cDNA microarray. Keywords: comparative tissue gene expression
