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Maternal gut microbiota in pregnancy influences offspring metabolic phenotype in mice
27 Feb 2020
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Mouse mothers transfer metabolic mode Obesity and metabolic diseases tend to go together, and humans who become obese are also prone to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular problems. Starting with the observation that offspring of germ-free mice tended to become obese on high-fat diets, Kimura et al. investigated how the presence of the microbiota might be protective in mice (see the Perspective by Ferguson)....
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