The placenta, maternal diet and adipose tissue development in the newborn
Background: A majority of adipose tissue present in the newborn possess the unique mitochondrial protein, uncoupling protein (UCP1). It is thus highly metabolically active and capable of producing 300 times more heat per unit mass than any other organ in the body. The extent to which maternal obesit...
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Karger
2017
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41459/ |