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Effect of moderate, 30 percent global maternal nutrient reduction on fetal and postnatal baboon phenotype.
Journal of medical primatology - 1 Dec 2017
Li Cun, Jenkins Susan, Mattern Vicki, Comuzzie Anthony G, Cox Laura A, Huber Hillary F, Nathanielsz Peter W
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Most developmental programming studies on maternal nutrient reduction (MNR) are in altricial rodents whose maternal nutritional burden and offspring developmental trajectory differ from precocial non-human primates and humans. METHODS: Control (CTR) baboon mothers ate ad libitum; MNR mothers ate 70% global control diet in pregnancy and lactation. RESULTS: We present offspring morphometry, blood...
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