Gale Carey, University of New Hampshire (IMAGE)

University of New Hampshire

Gale Carey, University of New Hampshire

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Gale Carey, professor of nutrition at UNH, and her team of researchers found that laboratory rats that were exposed to polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, experienced a disruption in their metabolism that resulted in the development of metabolic obesity and enlarged livers in rats.

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University of New Hampshire

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