Figure 3.

Body weight gains and plasma parameters. For each animal, the gain of body weight was calculated relatively to the body weight at the age of 4.5 months at which animals had been either maintained on the C-diet or shifted to the HF-diet. n = 6/group. Statistics were performed using Mann and Whitney tests. Data are given as mean ± SEM. ^*p < 0.05; ^***p < 0.001. Challenging the perinatal and/or adult diet resulted in differences in circulating nutrients and hormones involved in the lipid and carbohydrate metabolisms.