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We hypothesized that both day of gestation and maternal nutrition would alter the relative mRNA expression of neutral and acid AA transporters , , , , and . Crossbred Angus heifers ( = 49) were synchronized, bred via AI, assigned to nutritional treatment (100% of NRC requirements for 0.45 kg/d gain [control heifers {CON}] and 60% of CON [restricted heifers {RES}]), and ovariohysterectomized on d 16, 34, or 50 of gestation ( = 6 to 9/d). Nonbred, nonpregnant (NB-NP) controls were ovariohysterectomized on d 16 of the estrous cycle ( = 6) after synchronization. The resulting arrangement was a 2 × 3 factorial + 1 (CON vs. RES × d 16, 34, or 50 + NB-NP controls). Tissues collected included caruncular endometrium (CAR), intercaruncular endometrium (ICAR), fetal membranes (FM; chorioallantois; d 16 and 34), cotyledonary placenta (COT; d 50 only), intercotyledonary placenta (ICOT; d 50 only), and amnion (AMN; d 50 only]). Relative expression of , , , , and was determined for each tissue using NB-NP CAR and NB-NP ICAR tissues for the baseline; for FM, endometrium from NB-NP controls served as the baseline. In CAR, no day × treatment interaction was observed (0.05). However, day of gestation affected relative expression of , where expression on d 16 was greater (0.01) than expression on d 34 and 50. Additionally, relative expression of and was greater ( ≤ 0.05) in pregnant heifers compared with NB-NP heifers. For ICAR, was influenced by a day × treatment interaction (0.01), where expression in d 16 RES was greater ( ≤ 0.05) than that of any other day or nutritional treatment. Furthermore, expression in d 16 CON was greater ( ≤ 0.05) than that in d 50 RES, with those in d 34 CON and RES and d 50 CON being intermediate. In addition, was affected by day of gestation, where expression on d 16 was greater (0.01) than that on d 34 and 50. A day × treatment interaction was not observed (0.05) in FM; however, expression on d 34 was greater ( = 0.02) than on d 50, with that on d 16 being intermediate. Day of gestation also affected expression of , where expression on d 34 and 50 was greater (0.01) than that on d 16. These data support our hypothesis in that both day of gestation and maternal nutrition affected the relative mRNA expression of AA transporter in ICAR, whereas day of gestation has a greater effect on the relative mRNA expression of other neutral and acidic AA transporters in the various tissues studied. |
