Helping ensure maternal and infant health, Chinese team reveals metabolic adaptations of multiple tissues and organs in primates during pregnancy. It lays an important foundation for understanding how mothers adapt to the metabolic challenges of pregnancy.
The research team said that non-human primate monkeys are highly similar to humans in terms of physiology, reproductive characteristics and pregnancy cycles. The results showed that primate mothers experience huge metabolic disturbances during pregnancy and challenges, metabolic reprogramming occurs in a variety of tissues and organ. It is also of great significance to fundamentally improve the health of mothers and infants.