Feeding circuit development and early-life influences on future feeding behaviour

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 19, 302 (2018). doi:10.1038/nrn.2018.23 Author: Lori M. Zeltser A wide range of maternal exposures — undernutrition, obesity, diabetes, stress and infection — are associated with an increased risk of metabolic disease in offspring. Developmental influences can cause persistent structural changes in hypothalamic circuits regulating food intake in the service of energy balance. The
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