Effect of Maternal Dietary Fat on Skeletal Muscle Cellularity and Satellite Cell Content of the Porcine Fetus at 110 Days of Gestation

摘要

Crossbred gilts and sows were fed isocaloric diets that contained 0, 2.3, 12.8 or 29.7 poultry fat beginning at day 80 of gestation. At day 110 of gestation, fetuses were removed by Caesarean section. Maternal dietary fat did not influence fetal weight, sartorius muscle weight, length, composition, cellularity or satellite cell content. It was concluded that feeding diets high in fat during the last trisemester as exercised in this study did not influence the satellite cell content or cellularity of skeletal muscle.