Researchers fed an «obesogenic diet» (high fat, high sugar) to pre-pubertal rabbits, then compared their mammary
gland development at mid-pregnancy to that of the rabbits fed the control diet.
Speroni said, «We now have a way to test the impact of endocrine - disrupting chemicals on the
development of the mouse mammary
gland at different doses and obtain results in less than a week.»