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Departments of
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Foods and Nutrition and
Animal and Dairy Sciences, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 and
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U.S. Department of Agriculture/ARS Russell Research Center, Athens, GA 30605
2To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ghausman{at}saa.ars.usda.gov.
Sprague-Dawley rats were fed either a control diet (7 g/100 g
soybean oil) or a conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) diet (6.5 g/100 g
soybean oil and 0.5 g/100 g CLA) beginning on d 7 of gestation to
determine whether pre- and postnatal CLA affects short- and
long-term growth and adiposity. At weaning (d 21), progeny were
assigned control or CLA diet and fed until 11 wk of age. At birth,
litter size and weight were not different between treatments. There
were age- and sex-dependent changes in inguinal adipose fatty acid
composition at birth and weaning, whereas there were no differences in
lipid accretion or adipocyte proliferation. At weaning, CLA did not
alter inguinal adipocyte proliferation but increased (P
< 0.01) CCAAT/enhancer binding protein
expression in inguinal
adipose tissue from females, whereas there was no difference in
expression in males. Significant differences in size distribution of
inguinal adipocytes at weaning and retroperitoneal adipocytes at 11 wk
of age were observed. In general, CLA increased the proportion of
smaller cells and decreased the proportion of larger cells. The main
long-term effect of the dams diet was the significantly heavier
gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and significantly longer tail
lengths, an indication of skeletal growth, of male pups whose dams were
fed CLA. Postweaning diet reduced fat pad weights in female but not
male pups fed CLA. This response was due to differences in cell size
rather than number. Response to CLA treatment may depend on the sex and
age of the animal as well as duration of feeding.
KEY WORDS: conjugated linoleic acid gestation lactation adipogenesis imprinting rats
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