Maternal obesity induced by a high fat diet causes altered cellular development in fetal brains suggestive of a predisposition of offspring to neurological disorders in later life

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 721-725

  Stachowiak, Ewa K ^a   Srinivasan, Malathi ^b   Stachowiak, Michal K ^a   Patel, Mulchand S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal brain cellular development; High fat diet; Hypothalamic appetite regulation; Maternal obesity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIPID DIET; MATERNAL OBESITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROGENY; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WEANING;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIET, HIGH-FAT; FEMALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84887235185     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-013-9437-8     Document Type: Article

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