Metabolic induction and early responses of mouse blastocyst developmental programming following maternal low protein diet affecting life-long health.

Previously, we have shown that a maternal low protein diet, fed exclusively during the preimplantation period of mouse development (Emb-LPD), is sufficient to induce by the blastocyst stage a compensatory growth phenotype in late gestation and postnatally, correlating with increased risk of adult on...

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Main Authors: Judith J Eckert, Richard Porter, Adam J Watkins, Elizabeth Burt, Suzanne Brooks, Henry J Leese, Peter G Humpherson, Iain T Cameron, Tom P Fleming
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3531326?pdf=render