Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Wagner, Catherine Ann Robertson
Author's Email Address	cwagner@vt.edu
URN	etd-051099-130149
Title	Reproduction and Enzyme Detoxification Activities in Mouse Lines Selected for Response to Fescue Toxicosis
Degree	Master of Science
Department	Animal and Poultry Sciences
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title W.D. Hohenboken Committee Chair D. J. Blodgett Committee Member E. A. Wong Committee Member
Keywords	Mice Festuca arundinacea Reproductive Performance UDP Glutathione Transferase
Date of Defense	1999-04-15
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract REPRODUCTION AND ENZYME DETOXIFICATION ACTIVITIES IN MOUSE LINES SELECTED FOR RESPONSE TO FESCUE TOXICOSIS by Catherine Ann Robertson Wagner William D. Hohenboken, Chairman Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences (ABSTRACT) In previous work, mouse lines were selected for resistance (R) or for susceptibility (S) to fescue toxicosis based upon reductions in post-weaning growth rate caused by an endophyte-infected diet. The first objective of the current experiment was to determine whether long term reproduction of S mice was more severely depressed than that of R mice by the toxic diet. The second objective was to quantify glutathione-S-epoxytransferase (GST) and uridine diphosphate glucuronosyl-transferase (UDPGT) activities in R and S dams form the experiment and to determine whether reproduction during continuous cohabitation and liver detoxification enzyme activities were correlated within line x diet groups. Effects of the toxic diet were detectable within the first litters produced. Reproduction was more seriously influenced by the toxic diet within the S line than within the R line when these measures were compared within four equal time phases. The effects of the toxic diet on reproduction were greatest early in the experiment; by the fourth time phase differences among line x diet groups, with the exception of litter weight, were not significant. Percentage differences in total reproduction were greater between S mice fed the non-toxic diet and S mice fed the toxic diet than those between the R mice fed the non-toxic and toxic diets. Averaged across diets, GST activities were higher in R mice, but UDPGT activities were not significant. Within R line mice, GST was correlated with three reproductive measures, but UDPGT activity was not correlated with reproduction within any line x diet group.
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