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Maternal Smoke Exposure Impairs the Long-Term Fertility of Female Offspring in a Murine Model1
14 Jan 2016
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The theory of fetal origins of adult disease was first proposed in 1989, and in the decades since, a wide range of other diseases from obesity to asthma have been found to originate in early development. Because mammalian oocyte development begins in fetal life it has been suggested that environmental and lifestyle factors of the mother could directly impact the fertility of subsequent generations. Cigarette...
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