Sentences with phrase «diet affects her offspring»

Disturbances of the placenta's bacterial community may explain why some women give birth prematurely, and could also be one of the ways that a woman's diet affects her offspring's gut bacteria, and as a result the child's disease risk.

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Then, to see if diet affected the mice's offspring, the scientists bred the mice on low - or high - fiber diets for four generations.

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.

The process by which a mother's diet during pregnancy can permanently affect her offspring's attributes, such as weight, could be strongly influenced by genetic variation in an unexpected part of the genome, according to research led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).