The environment experienced by an individual early in life has long-term health consequences. Here we summarize key factors that should be considered when designing studies in rodents that aim to address the developmental programming of metabolic disease.
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Our work is supported by the MRC (MC_UU_00014/4), BHF (RG/17/12/33167 and PG/20/11/34957) and Royal Society (DHF\R1\221051).
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Dearden, L., Ozanne, S.E. Considerations for designing and analysing inter-generational studies in rodents. Nat Metab 5, 1–4 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-022-00721-7
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