PHYSIOLOGY AND ENDOCRINOLOGY SYMPOSIUM: Pre- and post-natal impacts on offspring performance.

Early exercise regimen improves insulin sensitivity in the intrauterine growth-restricted adult female rat offspring.

We examined the effect of early exercise training (Ex) on glucose kinetics, basal, and insulin-stimulated skeletal muscle (SKM) plasma membrane (PM) GLUT4 in pre- and/or postnatal nutrient-restricted adult rat offspring compared with sedentary (Sed) state. Pregestational control female (Ex CON vs. Sed CON) and offspring exposed to prenatal (Ex IUGR vs. Sed IUGR), postnatal (Ex PNGR vs. Sed PNGR...

Evolutionary Conflict Between Maternal and Paternal Interests: Integration with Evolutionary Endocrinology.

Conflict between mates, as well as conflict between parents and offspring are due to divergent evolutionary interests of the interacting individuals. Hormone systems provide genetically based proximate mechanisms for mediating phenotypic adaptation and maladaptation characteristic of evolutionary conflict between individuals. Testosterone (T) is among the most commonly studied hormones in evolu...

Glucose metabolic adaptations in the intrauterine growth-restricted adult female rat offspring.

We studied glucose metabolic adaptations in the intrauterine growth-restricted (IUGR) rat offspring to decipher glucose homeostasis in metabolic programming. Glucose futile cycling (GFC), which is altered when there is imbalance between glucose production and utilization, was studied during a glucose tolerance test (GTT) in 2-day-old (n = 8), 2-mo-old (n = 22), and 15-mo-old (n = 22) female rat...

Physiology and Endocrinology Symposium: the current status of heat shock in early embryonic survival and reproductive efficiency.

AND ENDOCRINOLOGY SYMPOSIUM: The current status of heat shock in early embryonic survival and reproductive effi ciency" (2013).

Physiology and Endocrinology Symposium: The next generation of metabolic endocrinology.