Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 10 , Pages 902-909 , October 2010

Maternal undernutrition alters fat cell size distribution, but not lipogenic gene expression, in the visceral fat of the late gestation guinea pig fetus

  • L.T. Nguyen

      Affiliations

    • Early Origins of Adult Health Research Group, Sansom Institute for Health Research, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
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  • B.S. Muhlhausler

      Affiliations

    • Early Origins of Adult Health Research Group, Sansom Institute for Health Research, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
    • Present address: FOODplus Research Centre, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5064, Australia.
    • ,
  • K.J. Botting

      Affiliations

    • Early Origins of Adult Health Research Group, Sansom Institute for Health Research, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
    • Discipline of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
    • ,
  • J.L. Morrison

      Affiliations

    • Early Origins of Adult Health Research Group, Sansom Institute for Health Research, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
    • Discipline of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Sansom Institute for Health Research, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, GPO Box 2471, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia. Tel.: +61 8 8302 2166; fax: +61 8 8302 2389.

,Accepted 27 July 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2010.07.014

Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 10 , Pages 902-909 , October 2010

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