Figure 1

Weights of rats whose mothers had been fed diets differing in their protein contents. There were three groups of male rats: those whose mothers were fed a diet containing 20% protein throughout pregnancy and lactation ('control'; n = 24 animals from 6 different litters; relatively large solid squares), those that were born to dams fed the 8% protein diet but were subsequently cross-fostered by dams fed the 20% protein diet ('recuperated'; n = 16 animals from 5 different litters; open circles) and those that were born to control dams but were subsequently cross-fostered by dams fed a diet containing 8% protein ('post-natal low protein'; n = 20 animals from 5 different litters; solid circles). Data are medians.