ISSN 1662-4009 (online)

ey0016.2-12 | Maternal Obesity and Long-term Infant Consequences | ESPEYB16

2.12. Maternal obesity impairs skeletal development in adult offspring

JR Chen , OP Lazarenko , H Zhao , AW Alund , K Shankar

To read the full abstract: J Endocrinol. 2018 Jul 26.This study, using a mouse model, investigated the effects of high fat diet-induced maternal obesity on both fetal and adult offspring skeletal development.Maternal nutrition appears to influence epigenetic alterations in the offspring and to program gene expression in key metabolic pathways, such as fatty acids a...