Maternal high-fat diet triggers lipotoxicity in the fetal livers of nonhuman primates

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 323-335

  McCurdy, Carrie E ^a   Bishop, Jacalyn M ^b   Williams, Sarah M ^b   Grayson, Bernadette E ^b   Smith, M Susan ^b   Friedman, Jacob E ^a   Grove, Kevin L ^b  

^a Children's Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; CYTOKINE; LEPTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS LIVER; FETUS RISK; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID DIET; LOW FAT DIET; MACACA; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MATERNAL OBESITY; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; FAT INTAKE; FATTY LIVER; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIVER; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DIETARY FATS; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LEPTIN; LIVER; MACACA; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 61749094289     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI32661     Document Type: Article

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