Effects of systemic progesterone during the early luteal phase on the availabilities of amino acids and glucose in the bovine uterine lumen

• Published in: Reproduction fertility and development Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 282 - 292
• Main Authors: Mullen, Michael P, Bazer, Fuller W, Wu, Guoyao, Parr, Mervyn H, Evans, Alexander C. O, Crowe, Mark A, Diskin, Michael G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Australia CSIRO Publishing 2014
• Subjects: Administration, Intravaginal; amino acids; Amino Acids - metabolism; Animals; blood; Cattle; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; conceptus; corpus luteum; dairy heifers; Estrous Cycle - blood; Estrous Cycle - drug effects; estrus; Female; Fluorometry; glucose; Glucose - metabolism; high performance liquid chromatography; nutrition; pregnancy; progesterone; Progesterone - administration & dosage; Progesterone - blood; Time Factors; uterus; Uterus - cytology; Uterus - drug effects; Uterus - metabolism

The uterine histotroph provides essential nutrition to the developing conceptus during the preimplantation period of pregnancy. The objective of the present study was to examine the effects of cycle stage and progesterone (P4) concentrations in the blood on the recoverable quantities of amino acids...