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Maternal Mediation of the Effects of Malnutrition

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Handbook of Behavioral Teratology

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Early malnutrition may be considered a maternal manipulation: the mother is directly affected by the malnutrition, whereas the offspring are affected by the maternal response to malnutrition. In spite of an extensive literature in the area of early malnutrition, particularly its implications for neural and behavioral development (e.g., Dobbing, 1984; Leathwood, 1978; Zamenhoff & Van Marthens, 1978), few have attempted to address the basic question of what nutrients get through to the fetus and the neonate. In rats, we know what we feed to the dams, either pregnant or lactating. Do we know what nutrients the pups get? The answer to this question is largely negative. Ignorance of the actual proximal effects of malnutrition can lead us astray, for example, when we compare postnatal to prenatal malnutrition. In such comparisons, both the nutrients available to the offspring and their developmental stage differ.

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