Feeding pregnant ewes a high-salt diet or saltbush suppresses their offspring’s postnatal renin activity
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Feeding pregnant ewes a high-salt diet or saltbush suppresses their offspring's postnatal renin activity.
If ewes consumed a high-salt diet or saltbush during the last 3 months of pregnancy and for 3 weeks after birth, we expected the renin activity of their lamb to be suppressed at birth and at 3 weeks of age. We also expected an increase in the concentration of cations other than sodium in the ewe's milk and an increase in the plasma Na concentration of the lamb at birth. To test these hypotheses...
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عنوان ژورنال: Animal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1751-7311
DOI: 10.1017/s175173110900425x