Dietary Supplementation of Leucine in Premating Diet Improves the Within-Litter Birth Weight Uniformity, Antioxidative Capability, and Immune Function of Primiparous SD Rats
Table 5
Effect of dietary leucine supplementation on plasma hormones in primiparous SD rats.
Items
Control
0.6% leucine
value
Day −1 of pregnancy
Insulin (uIU/mL)
0.017
IGF-1 (ng/mL)
≪0.01
Estradiol (pg/mL)
0.040
Progesterone (pg/mL)
0.493
LH (uIU/mL)
0.038
FSH (uIU/mL)
0.542
Day 7 of pregnancy
Insulin (uIU/mL)
0.937
IGF-1 (ng/mL)
≪0.01
Estradiol (pg/mL)
≪0.01
Progesterone (pg/mL)
0.015
LH (uIU/mL)
0.369
FSH (uIU/mL)
0.305
Day 20 of pregnancy
Insulin (uIU/mL)
0.617
IGF-1 (ng/mL)
0.038
Estradiol (pg/mL)
0.032
Progesterone (pg/mL)
0.424
LH (uIU/mL)
0.671
FSH (uIU/mL)
0.049
Value is the mean ± standard error of means of ten replicates; is means labeled with significant difference (); is means labeled with extreme difference ().
