Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Maternal obesity is associated with increased risk of metabolic dysfunction in the offspring. It is not clear which physiological aspects of the obese state that cause this metabolic programming. Obesity causes many metabolic changes but also low grade inflammation. In this study, we have determined if increased low grade inflammation was present in obese dams compared to controls dams during gestation.Methods: Female C57BL/6 mice were fed ...