Article
High-fat Diet Alters Male Seminal Plasma Composition to Impair Female Immune Adaptation for Pregnancy in Mice.
Endocrinology - 1 Oct 2021
Schjenken John E, Moldenhauer Lachlan M, Sharkey David J, Chan Hon Y, Chin Peck Y, Fullston Tod, McPherson Nicole O, Robertson Sarah A
Abstract excerpt
Paternal experiences and exposures before conception can influence fetal development and offspring phenotype. The composition of seminal plasma contributes to paternal programming effects through modulating the female reproductive tract immune response after mating. To investigate whether paternal obesity affects seminal plasma immune-regulatory activity, C57Bl/6 male mice were fed an obesogenic high-fat diet...
Topics
- Adiposity
- Animals
- Body Composition
- Cytokines
- Diet, High-Fat
- Female
- Lymphocyte Subsets
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
