Maternal diet can increase development and severity of asthma in offspring
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 18:00
in Health & Medicine
John Hollingsworth and colleagues, at Duke University Medical Centre, Durham, have generated evidence in mice that a maternal diet rich in methyl donors, of which one source is the prenatal supplement folate, increases the chance that the developing fetus will suffer from asthma after birth...
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