Nature Communications (Apr 2018)
Placental miR-340 mediates vulnerability to activity based anorexia in mice
Abstract
Anorexia nervosa is characterised by self-starvation but its etiology is not completely understood. Here the authors describe how prenatal stress can induce activity-based anorexia in the offspring during early adulthood by upregulating miR-340 expression in the placenta that affects expression of nutrient transporters.