Perinatal maternal high-fat diet induces early obesity and sex-specific alterations of the endocannabinoid system in whi...
Published in The British journal of nutrition
Perinatal maternal high-fat (HF) diet programmes offspring obesity. Obesity is associated with overactivation of the endocannabinoid system (ECS) in adult subjects, but the role of the ECS in the developmental origins of obesity is mostly unknown. The ECS consists of endocannabinoids, cannabinoid receptors (cannabinoid type-1 receptor (CB1) and can...
