Sentences with phrase «rats affected their offspring»

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Prof. Ruiling Zhang and team from Xinxiang Medical University explored the correlation between cyclin - dependent kinase 5 expression in the hippocampus and neurological impairments following prenatal ethanol exposure, and found that prenatal ethanol exposure could affect cyclin - dependent kinase 5 and its activator p35 in the hippocampus of offspring rats.

But because the vinclozolin - induced fertility changes occurred in almost every male rat descended from a treated mother rather than in a small percentage of offspring (as is seen in germ line mutations caused by radiation), Skinner suspects an epigenetic mechanism — a change that doesn't mutate the DNA sequence of an animal, but rather affects how genes are expressed.

Animal studies involving rats do suggest that flax affects the offspring of pregnant rats.