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Nature, nurture or nutrition? Impact of maternal nutrition on maternal care, offspring development and reproductive function.
The Journal of physiology - 1 May 2012
Connor K L, Vickers M H, Beltrand J, Meaney M J, Sloboda D M
Abstract excerpt
We have previously reported that offspring of mothers fed a high fat (HF) diet during pregnancy and lactation enter puberty early and are hyperleptinaemic, hyperinsulinaemic and obese as adults. Poor maternal care and bonding can also impact offspring development and disease risk.We therefore hypothesized that prenatal nutrition would affect maternal care and that an interaction may exist between a maternal HF...
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