Fig. 1. Maternal exercise intervention markedly induces the expression of thermogenic markers in iBAT and ingWAT of offspring at weaning.
(A and B) Body weight (A) and relative wet weight of iBAT and ingWAT (B) normalized to body weight of female and male M-Ctrl and M-Ex offspring at weaning (n = 6 mice per group). N.S., not significant. (C) Z scores of mRNA levels of different brown fat markers in the iBAT and ingWAT of M-Ctrl and M-Ex offspring at weaning (n = 6 mice per group). Expression was normalized by ΔCt values. (D) Cropped Western blots of UCP1, PRDM16, and PGC-1α in the iBAT (β-tubulin is the loading control) from the E18.5 fetuses of CON and EX maternal mice (n = 6 fetuses per group). (E and F) Cropped Western blots of UCP1 and PRDM16 (β-tubulin is the loading control) from iBAT (E) and ingWAT (F) isolated from female and male mice of M-Ctrl and M-Ex at weaning (n = 6 mice per group). Data are mean ± SEM, and each dot represents one litter. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, and ***P < 0.001 by two-tailed unpaired Student’s t test (A to C, E, and F) or one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) (D).