Maternal obesity programs reduced leptin signaling in the pituitary and altered GH/IGF1 axis function leading to increased adiposity in adult sheep offspring

• Nuermaimaiti Tuersunjiang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nuermaimaiti Tuersunjiang, John F. Odhiambo

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Current address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

  Affiliation Center for the Study of Fetal Programming, Department of Animal Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

  ⨯
• John F. Odhiambo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nuermaimaiti Tuersunjiang, John F. Odhiambo

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for the Study of Fetal Programming, Department of Animal Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1005-3486

  ⨯
• Desiree R. Shasa,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Center for the Study of Fetal Programming, Department of Animal Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

  ⨯
• Ashley M. Smith,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation Center for the Study of Fetal Programming, Department of Animal Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

  ⨯
• Peter W. Nathanielsz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for the Study of Fetal Programming, Department of Animal Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

  ⨯
• Stephen P. Ford

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: spford@uwyo.edu

  Affiliation Center for the Study of Fetal Programming, Department of Animal Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

  ⨯