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Maternal pancreatic islet transplant prevents hypothalamic defect in rat pups

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, February 9th, 2004

Maternal pancreatic islet transplantation protects against hypothalamic malformation in offspring of diabetic mother rats that is already detectable at weaning.

"Exposure to gestational diabetes (GD) in rats leads to dysplasia of the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMN), decisively involved into the regulation of body weight and metabolism. Recently, we have shown here that VMN malformation is absent in adult offspring of GD mothers treated by pancreatic islet transplantation during gestation. We therefore now investigated whether VMN malformation and its prevention are already present at the early postnatal end of the critical hypothalamic differentiation period,"...

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