Impact of diet in morphometric and immune maternal factors of Lewis rats during Pregnancy and Lactation

Identifier:  TFM:705

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TFM705

Authors:  Adell Valen, Sònia

Abstract:
The objective of this thesis is to check how two types of diet, one with components linked to healthy effects, and one with components linked with harmful effects, can impact maternal features like morphology, immunology and metabolic waste products like the faeces. Among tracked measures we can find body weight, food and water consumption, faeces pH and humidity, haematology parameters, IgA from intestinal lavage and organs’ weight. Conclusions are that diet has an important role in health from both the offspring and the mother and provides a useful tool for disease prognosis of the progeny, which is maternal parameters assessment.