title: [The effects of malnutrition on the prenatal development of rat brain].
abstract: Female rats were submitted to caloric and protein restriction 8 days before fecondation and during pregnancy. A reduction of the number of brain cells in the fetuses was evident only after the 20th day of pregnancy. This reduction appeared to be limited to glial cells, and not to affect neurons contrarily to what had previously been stated by some authors.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000166:cytology / Q000196:embryology* / Q000378:metabolism; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism; D004805:Ependyma / Q000196:embryology; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D009457:Neuroglia / Q000166:cytology; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000150:complications*; D012313:RNA / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D012313:RNA; D004247:DNA
vernacular_title: Effets de la dénutrition sur le développement anténatal du cerveau du rat