Developmental programming of adulthood obesity and cardiovascular disease in the mouse by maternal nutritional imbalance

A link between early malnutrition and development of components of the metabolic syndrome later in life has been shown in epidemiological and animal data. Moreover, studies now tend to demonstrate that not only fetal environment is important for developmental programming but postnatal milieu could a...

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Main Author: Bol, Vanesa
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Universite catholique de Louvain 2008
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Online Access:http://edoc.bib.ucl.ac.be:81/ETD-db/collection/available/BelnUcetd-11032008-192928/