Study: Maternal omega-3 deficiency can alter the development of neuronal networks in offspring – News-Medical.Net

Omega-3 fatty acids are essential, necessarily supplied by the diet and indispensable to brain development.
Scientists from INRAE and University of Bordeaux, working in collaboration with INSERM, Laval and Toronto Universities in Canada and other partners (Harvard, Fondation Basque, etc.) have focused in particular on the impact of the maternal diet during gestation and lactation on the brain development of their offspring.
They have thus shown for the first time in mice how an insufficient intake…

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