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Respective contributions of maternal insulin resistance and diet to metabolic and hypothalamic phenotypes of progeny.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 1 Mar 2011
Carmody Jill S, Wan Phyllis, Accili Domenico, Zeltser Lori M, Leibel Rudolph L
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Maternal obesity can influence susceptibility to obesity and type 2 diabetes in progeny. We examined the relationship of maternal insulin resistance (IR), a metabolically important consequence of increased adiposity, to adverse consequences of obesity for fetal development. We used mice heterozygous for a null allele of the insulin receptor (Insr) to study the contributions of maternal IR to offspring phenotype...
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