Body composition and behaviour in adult rats are influenced by maternal diet, maternal age and high-fat feeding

Fetal exposure to maternal undernutrition has lifelong consequences for physiological and metabolic function. Maternal low-protein diet is associated with an age-related phenotype in rats, characterised by a period of resistance to development of obesity in early adulthood, giving way to an obesity-...

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Main Authors: S. Ware, J.-P. Voigt, S. C. Langley-Evans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2015-01-01
Series:Journal of Nutritional Science
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2048679014000640/type/journal_article