Smoking in pregnancy effects next generation
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 02-10-2014
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"It would be unethical to deliberately expose pregnant mothers and their offspring to the toxins in cigarettes - we already know that smoking in pregnancy harms the baby in the womb - as babies are often born small and vulnerable to disease. So, in this study we used a mouse animal model, which directly mimics human smoking, to look at what effects the mothers smoking during pregnancy and breast feeding has on the fertility of their male pups," said lead study author Eileen McLaughlin, Director of the Priority Research Center in Chemical Biology at the University of Newcastle (New South Wales, Australia), in a news release.