Science news articles about 'mother rats'

... procedure and how consistently they provided this care from day to day. They discovered that the mother rats that delivered more care to their pups on average were inconsistent in their amount of ...

... and she hoped that future human data will align with findings about mother rats. "Rodent data shows that mother ... . That sounds to me like almost every mother I know and I hope that the human effects ...

... . It is of high fat content, and palatable with a lot of variety. The research found that the mother rats ate more than double the calories of the control group. "Maternal obesity and overfeeding ...

... life. Levels of the hormones insulin and leptin also were elevated in fetuses of these obese mother rats, abnormalities that have been correlated with increased appetite and insulin resistance (a ...

... Neuroscience meeting on the moral disengagement of psychopaths, liars' decision making, a parasite that helps cats triumph over rats and how mother rats affect the behavioral development of their pups

If a mother rat does not eat well, her offspring exhibit genetic changes that affect what they'll become.

... . We know that it exacerbates disease." "We believe that the minute levels of carbon monoxide in the mother rats' environment made their offspring more vulnerable to illness," added Edmond. "Our ...