Abstract: Knowledge on the role of early nutritional stimuli as triggers of metabolic pathways in fish is extremely scarce. The objective of the present study was to assess the long-term effects of glucose injection in the yolk (early stimulus) on carbohydrate metabolism and gene regulation in zebrafish juveniles challenged with a high-carbohydrate low-protein (HC) diet. Eggs were microinjected at 1 d post-fertilisation (dpf) with either glucose (2 m) or saline solutions. Up to 25 dpf, fish were fed a low-carbohydrate high-protein (LC) control diet, whic...
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Endocrinology
Internal medicine