Importance of Maternal Diabetes on the Chronological Deregulation of the Intrauterine Development: An Experimental Study in Rat

Figure 3

The body and facial morphologies of newborn pups obtained from control rats ((a), (a1), and (a2)) and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats ((b), (b1), and (b2)). Note in the pup from the diabetic mother (b1) the medial surface of the helix with the straight edge in the auricular appendage. E = eyelids, AP = auricular pavilion, No = nostrils, N = nose, and P = philtrum.