Molecular nutrition: Interaction of nutrients, gene regulations and performances.
Nutrition deals with ingestion of foods, digestion, absorption, transport of nutrients, intermediary metabolism, underlying anabolism and catabolism, and excretion of unabsorbed nutrients and metabolites. In addition, nutrition interacts with gene expressions, which are involved in the regulation of animal performances. Our laboratory is concerned with the improvement of animal productions, such as milks, meats and eggs, with molecular nutritional aspects. The present review shows overviews on the nutritional regulation of metabolism, physiological functions and gene expressions to improve animal production in chickens and dairy cows.
Laboratory of Animal Science, Department of Biological Production, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Japan.
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Sato
D017667:Adipocytes; D000824:Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002645:Chickens; D004247:DNA; D004531:Eggs; D015870:Gene Expression; D007155:Immunologic Factors; D008074:Lipoproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D008460:Meat; D055442:Metabolome; D008892:Milk; D032446:Myoblasts; D018384:Oxidative Stress; D020543:Proteome; D059467:Transcriptome
D007155:Immunologic Factors; D008074:Lipoproteins; D020543:Proteome; D004247:DNA
chicken; dairy cow; gene expression; metabolism; nutrition