Maternal fructose and/or salt intake and reproductive outcome in the rat: effects on growth, fertility, sex ratio, and birth order
Maternal diet can significantly skew the secondary sex ratio away from the expected value of 0.5 (proportion males), but the details of how diet may do this are unclear. Here, we altered dietary levels of salt (4% salt in the feed) and/or fructose (10% in the drinking water) of pregnant rats to mode...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Society for the Study of Reproduction
2013
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28892/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28892/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28892/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28892/1/Gray%20et%20al%202013.pdf |