Striking variation in the sex ratio of pups born to mice according to whether maternal diet is high in fat or carbohydrate

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4628-4632

  Rosenfeld, Cheryl S ^a   Grimm, Kristie M ^a   Livingston, Kimberly A ^a   Brokman, Angela M ^a   Lamberson, William E ^a   Roberts, R Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; SATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LIPID DIET; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OUTBRED STRAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALS; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIETARY FATS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; SEX RATIO; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037446853     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0330808100     Document Type: Article

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