Postnatal environment overrides genetic and prenatal factors influencing offspring obesity and insulin resistance

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 291, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Gorski, Judith N ^a,b   Dunn Meynell, Ambrose A ^a,c   Hartman, Thomas G ^d   Levin, Barry E ^a,c  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agouti related peptide; Development; Diet induced obesity; Hypothalamus; Leptin; Milk; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; INSULIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DISEASE COURSE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LIPID COMPOSITION; MILK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGING; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; MILK; NEUROPEPTIDES; OBESITY; RATS; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; RNA, MESSENGER; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 33748450150     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00138.2006     Document Type: Article

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