A metabolite of leucine (β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate) given to sows during pregnancy alters bone development of their newborn offspring by hormonal modulation

• Tomasz Blicharski ,

  * E-mail: ewaRST@interia.pl (ET); blicharski@vp.pl (TB)

  Affiliation Chair and Department of Rehabilitation and Orthopaedics, Medical University in Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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• Ewa Tomaszewska ,

  * E-mail: ewaRST@interia.pl (ET); blicharski@vp.pl (TB)

  Affiliation Department of Animal Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7574-2653

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• Piotr Dobrowolski,

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Anatomy and Anthropology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland

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• Monika Hułas-Stasiak,

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Anatomy and Anthropology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland

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• Siemowit Muszyński

  Affiliation Department of Physics, Faculty of Production Engineering, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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