Multiple births lead to weight gain, other problems for mouse moms and offspring
Friday, January 27, 2012 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Study in model that mimics human effects of multiparity (giving birth more than once) finds mouse moms who gave birth 4 times accrued significantly more fat vs. primiparous females (those giving birth once) of similar age. Multiparous moms also had more liver inflammation.