Effects of cloned-cattle meat diet on reproductive parameters in pregnant rabbits
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- 作者：Nam-Jin Lee ; Byoung-Chul Yang ; Jae-Sik Hwang ; Gi-Sun Im ; Yeoung-Gyu Ko ; Eung-Woo Park ; Hwan-Hoo Seong ; Soo-Bong Park ; Jong-Koo Kang ; Seongsoo Hwang
- 关键词：Rabbit ; Animal cloning ; Reproductive parameters ; Food safety ; Risk assessment
- 刊名：Food and Chemical Toxicology
- 出版年：2010
- 出版时间：March 2010
- 年：2010
- 卷：48
- 期：3
- 页码：871-876
- 全文大小：271 K
文摘
In this paper, we report on the effects of a diet containing cloned-cattle meat on the reproductive parameters in pregnant rabbits. The artificially inseminated rabbits (gestation day 0) were fed a diet containing 5 % or 10 % of normal or cloned-cattle meat during the gestation period. Rabbits fed commercial pellet (no additional supplementations) were used as the control. Supplementation of cloned-cattle meat diets did not have any toxicologically significant effects on reproductive performance in dams (body weight, clinical signs, organ weight, and cesarean section analysis). And it also did not affect on fetal development (body and placental weight, and external, visceral and skeletal findings) compared to the controls. The only difference was a food consumption in the first week of gestation for all meat-based diet groups (p < 0.05, 0.01, and 0.001, respectively). Our results collectively suggest that there are no obvious differences in reproductive parameters in pregnant rabbits fed cloned-cattle meat.