Nutrition manipulation during development and its impact of metabolic homeostasis in the adult offspring

Latest epidemiological data suggests 1.5 billion adults worldwide are either overweight or obese. With increasing weight and obesity, adipocytes increase in size. The enlargement of adipocytes has been associated with low grade chronic inflammation via elevated adipokine secretion. Previous epidemio...

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Main Author: Patel, Nikhil
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13958/