Obese mouse mothers trigger heart problems in offspring
Saturday, March 23, 2019 - 18:50
in Health & Medicine
Mitochondria manufacture energy in every cell of the body, including heart muscle cells. A new study shows that cardiac mitochondria are abnormal in the offspring of mouse mothers that become obese due to a high-fat, high sugar diet. Those offspring then pass on the mitochondrial defects at least two more generations.