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Advanced aging phenotype is revealed by epigenetic modifications in rat liver after in utero malnutrition.
Aging cell - 1 Oct 2016
Heo Hye J, Tozour Jessica N, Delahaye Fabien, Zhao Yongmei, Cui Lingguang, Barzilai Nir, Einstein Francine Hughes
Abstract excerpt
Adverse environmental exposures of mothers during fetal period predispose offspring to a range of age-related diseases earlier in life. Here, we set to determine whether a deregulated epigenetic pattern is similar in young animals whose mothers' nutrition was modulated during fetal growth to that acquired during normal aging in animals. Using a rodent model of maternal undernutrition (UN) or overnutrition (ON),...
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