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Some liver enzyme levels in the late pregnant and early parturient ewe and the effect of dietary restriction in late pregnancy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2009
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1. The effect of undernutrition on the levels of five enzyme activities has been observed in liver biopsy specimens taken from Suffolk-cross ewes in late pregnancy.
2. There was no significant effect on the levels of three important NADPH2-generating enzymes (i.e. glucose-6-phosphate, 6-phosphogluconate and tsocitrate dehydrogenases) when comparisons were made between groups of animals at the same stage of pregnancy. However, the proportion of very low 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase levels assayed in livers of the undernourished ewes was significantly increased as parturition approached.
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