1. Effects of mammalianin uteroheat stress on adolescent body temperature
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T. J. Safranski, Jason W. Ross, Josh Selsby, M. C. Lucy, Robert P. Rhoads, Rebecca L. Boddicker, Jay S. Johnson, M. Victoria Sanz-Fernandez, and Lance H. Baumgard
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Male ,Hyperthermia ,Cancer Research ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Swine ,Physiology ,Offspring ,Rectal temperature ,Biology ,medicine.disease ,Body weight ,Body Temperature ,Heat stress ,Endocrinology ,Pregnancy ,In utero ,Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects ,Physiology (medical) ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Animals ,Gestation ,Female ,Respiration rate ,Heat-Shock Response - Abstract
In utero hyperthermia can cause a variety of developmental issues, but how it alters mammalian body temperature during adolescence is not well-understood. Study objectives were to determine the extent to which in utero hyperthermia affects future phenotypic responses to a heat load. Pregnant first parity pigs were exposed to thermal neutral (TN) or heat stress (HS) conditions during the entire gestation. Of the resultant offspring, 12 were housed in TN conditions, and 12 were maintained in HS conditions for 15 days. Adolescent pigs in HS conditions had increased rectal temperature and respiration rate (RR) compared to TN pigs, regardless of gestational treatment. Within the HS environment, no gestational difference in RR was detected; however, GHS pigs had increased rectal temperature compared to GTN pigs. As rectal temperature increased, GTN pigs had a more rapid increase in RR compared to the GHS pigs. Adolescent HS decreased nutrient intake, and body weight gain, but neither variable was statistically influenced by gestational treatments. In summary, in utero HS compromises the future thermoregulatory response to a thermal insult.
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- 2013
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