The researchers investigated 16 groups of female and male mice offspring exposed to maternal diet - induced obesity and male hormone excess and studied how these environmental factors affected the mice's behaviour as well as gene expression in the brain. (sciencedaily.com)
This is the first time such a response to prenatal arsenic exposure has been found in humans, although mice offspring of moms exposed to arsenic in drinking water while pregnant were found to be more cancer?prone as adults. (scientificamerican.com)
Maternal high - fat feeding primes steatohepatitis in adult mice offspring, involving mitochondrial dysfunction and altered lipogenesis gene expression. (researchdiets.com)