Protein-energy malnutrition at mid-adulthood does not imprint long-term metabolic consequences in male rats.
Ananda MaltaEgberto Gaspar de MouraTatiane Aparecida RibeiroLaize Peron TófoloLatifa Abdennebi-NajarDidier VieauLuiz Felipe BarellaPaulo Cezar de Freitas MathiasPatrícia Cristina LisboaJúlio Cezar de OliveiraPublished in: European journal of nutrition (2015)
Taken together, the present data suggest that the effects of dietary restriction as a stressor in adulthood are reversible with dietary rehabilitation, indicating that adulthood is not a sensitive or critical time window for metabolic programming.