Mice delivered by C-section gain more weight than those delivered naturally
Mice born by Caesarian section gained on average 33 percent more weight in the 15 weeks after weaning than mice born vaginally, with females gaining 70 percent more weight. This is the finding of a study led by researchers from NYU School of Medicine and published online on Oct. 11 in Science Advances.
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Along with Dominguez-Bello, study authors from Department Medicine's Division of Translational Medicine at NYU School of Medicine were Keith Martinez II, Joseph Devlin, Corey Lacher, Yue Yin, Yi Cai, and Jincheng Wang. The work was partially supported by the C&D Research Fund, the Emch Fund, and an Institutional Research Training Award T32 AI007180. For more information, go to med.nyu.edu.
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