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Tohoku University

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Maternal exercise protects offspring from the detrimental effects on their glucose metabolism when the mother consumes a high-fat diet. Exercise-induced, placenta-derived SOD3 protein plays a fundamental role in improving the levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS), protein carbonylation, and histone modification.

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Kusuyama et al.

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