Maternal Obesity and the Early Origins of Childhood Obesity: Weighing Up the Benefits and Costs of Maternal Weight Loss in the Periconceptional Period for the Offspring
Figure 3
Relative adrenal weight (a) in the CC, CR, HH, and HR lambs (CC: open bar; CR: striped bar; HH: grey bar; HR: grey striped bar), plasma cortisol concentrations (b) in response to stress in female lambs at postnatal week 12, adrenal IGF2 mRNA expression (c), and IGF2/H19 DMR methylation levels (d) in lambs at postnatal week 16 (from Zhang et al., 2010 [50]). Different superscripts a, b, and c denote treatment groups which are significantly different from each other ().
