Dietary manipulation causes childhood obesity-like characteristics in pigs

An animal model to study complications resulting from childhood obesity is lacking. Our objective was to develop a porcine model for studying mechanisms underlying diet-induced childhood obesity. Pre-pubertal female pigs, age 35 d, were fed a high-energy diet (HED; n = 12), containing tallow and r...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fisher, Kimberly Denise
Other Authors: Animal and Poultry Sciences
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36176
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12152011-123225/