Dietary Supplementation of Leucine in Premating Diet Improves the Within-Litter Birth Weight Uniformity, Antioxidative Capability, and Immune Function of Primiparous SD Rats

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Effect of dietary leucine supplementation on the expression of gene involved in ovarian receptivity on day −1 of pregnancy in SD rats. The gene expression levels of LHR (a), FSHR (b), CYP17A1 (c), CYP19A1 (d), VEGFA (e), and Mucin-1 (f) in ovary on day −1 of pregnancy were measured by quantitative real-time PCR. Data is expressed as mean ± standard error of means of nine replicates. Labeled with significant difference (); labeled with extreme difference ().

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