Does maternal obesity during pregnancy impact offspring's liver and skeletal muscle metabolism?
Written By : Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli
Published On 2022-12-03 04:00 GMT | Update On 2022-12-03 09:29 GMT
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A recent study in The FASEB Journal has identified metabolic perturbations in the liver and skeletal muscle of young nonhuman primates on normal diets whose mothers were obese during pregnancy.
For the study, tissue biopsies were obtained from 19 post-pubertal offspring of mothers who were fed a Western diet and were obese during pregnancy, and from 13 control animals born to non-obese mothers fed a standard diet. All offspring ate a healthy chow diet after weaning.
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