date:Jan 27, 2014
while past studies failed to pinpoint the most critical stage of pregnancy during which maternal nutrition has the greatest impact on children's health.
To address these questions the authors used a mouse model to examine and identify the periods of hypothalamic neurocircuit development that are most strongly affected by a high fat diet in mothers.
They found that mouse mothers fed a high fat diet during lactation had offspring with abnormal neuronal connections in the hypothalamus, as well as