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Maternal and offspring high-fat diet leads to platelet hyperactivation in male mice offspring.
Sci Rep
January 2021
Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading - Harborne Building, Reading, RG6 6AS, UK.
Article Synopsis
- Maternal over-nutrition, specifically a high-fat diet, increases the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular issues in offspring, but its effect on platelet function hasn't been thoroughly investigated.
- In a study with mice, researchers fed mothers a high-fat or control diet before and during pregnancy, then assessed the diet's impact on their offspring's health and platelet function.
- Results showed that male offspring from high-fat diet mothers had larger, more active platelets and signs of oxidative stress, indicating a 'double-hit' effect from both maternal and offspring high-fat diets.
A national-scale model of linear features improves predictions of farmland biodiversity.
J Appl Ecol
December 2017
Modelling species distribution and abundance is important for many conservation applications, but it is typically performed using relatively coarse-scale environmental variables such as the area of broad land-cover types. Fine-scale environmental data capturing the most biologically relevant variables have the potential to improve these models. For example, field studies have demonstrated the importance of linear features, such as hedgerows, for multiple taxa, but the absence of large-scale datasets of their extent prevents their inclusion in large-scale modelling studies.
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