High-fat diet, obesity during pregnancy harms stem cells in developing fetus
Physician-scientists at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital reveal a high-fat diet and obesity during pregnancy compromise the blood-forming, or hematopoietic, stem cell system in the fetal liver…
December 31, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood, compromise-the-blood, fetal, hospital, ohsu, pregnancy / obstetrics, scientists-at-ohsu, stem-cell
Insulin, Nutrition Found To Prevent Blood Stem Cell Differentiation In Fruit Flies
UCLA stem cell researchers have shown that insulin and nutrition keep blood stem cells from differentiating into mature blood cells in Drosophila, the common fruit fly, a finding that has implications for studying inflammatory response and blood development in response to dietary changes in humans…
March 13, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood-cells, drosophila, immune system / vaccines, keep-blood, oncalldiets, stem-cell, stem-cells, the-common, ucla
