Abstract:Each stage (early, middle and late) of lactation is a critical period during which maternalmalnutritional can negatively effects on the offspring's body development. We investigatedthe effects of a maternal high fat diet (HF) during the different stages of lactation on bodyweight of male offspring at weaning. Female Wistar rats were fed either a HF diet only duringthe first week (HF1-7 group), second week (HF7-14 group), third week (HF14-21 group) andthroughout lactation (group HF1-21) or standard diet… Show more
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