Endocrine Abstracts

Perinatal undernutrition is known to disturb reproductive development, in particular by delaying the onset of puberty in certain species. Using a rat model, we studied whether hypernutrition after birth can rescue the delayed onset of puberty in intrauterine undernourished female rats. Pregnant rats were divided into two groups the maternal normal nutrition (mNN, n=8) and maternal undernutrition (mUN, n=9) groups. In the mUN group, dams received 50% of the daily ...