Most intriguing, in a complementary group of experiments, mice given low doses
of penicillin only during late pregnancy through nursing gained just as much weight as mice exposed to the antibiotic throughout their lives.
Not exact matches
But campaigners claim that these antibiotics account for
only 0.2 per cent
of antibiotic use on farms, and have accused the FDA
of quietly withdrawing proposals dating from 1977 to tackle the wider use
of tetracycline and
penicillin antibiotics.
Female MRI MRI images reveal far greater amounts
of abdominal fat (in red) in mice exposed to low doses
of penicillin and fed a high - fat diet as opposed to mice fed
only a high - fat diet (image on left).