Low Salt Diet in Pregnant Mothers Is Associated with Enhanced Salt Appetite in Their Offspring of Dahl Salt-Sensitive Rats
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50458#.VD903VfHRK0 Author(s) Anna Hara , Ranna Chow , Dong Dong Du , Hiroe Sakuyama , Yoshio Uehara Affiliation(s) Division of Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Home Economics, Kyoritsu Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan . ABSTRACT Objectives: We investigated an influence of salt intake during gestation or lactation in salt preference of weaning Dahl salt sensitive (Dahl S) strain. Material and Methods: Nine-week-old female Dahl S rats, after mated with the male, were divided into 1) high-salt group fed a 4% NaCl diet (high-salt mother) or 2) low-salt group fed a 0.3% NaCl diet (low-salt mother) during gestation or lactation periods. Using 0.4%, 0.6% and 0.8%...