Early Life Origins of Health and Disease - Wintour-Coghlan, E. Marelyn; Owens, Julie; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease -- The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease -- Should we intervene to improve fetal growth? -- Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease, Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity in Humans -- Growth and development of human twins -- Studies of Twins -- Practice-induced plasticity in the human motor cortex -- Prenatal Programming of Human Motor Function -- Adaptive Responses of Early Embryos to Their Microenvironment and Consequences for Post-Implantation Development -- Adaptive Responses of Early Embryos to Their Microenvironment and Consequences for Post-Implantation Development -- Modification of Epigenetic State through Dietary Manipulation in the Developing Mammalian Embryo -- Modification of Epigenetic State through Dietary Manipulation in the Developing Mammalian Embryo -- Overview of epigenetic mechanisms -- Critical Experiments to Determine if Early Nutritional Influences on Epigenetic Mechanisms Cause Metabolic Imprinting in Humans -- Nutritional programming and the development of hypertension -- Manipulation of the Maternal Diet in Rat Pregnancy -- Hypertension in pregnant women -- Programming Hypertension-Animal Models -- Developmental Programming of Cardiovascular Dysfunction -- Developmental Programming of Cardiovascular Dysfunction -- Kidney Development and Fetal Programming -- Kidney Development and Fetal Programming -- Programming of Obesity-Experimental Evidence -- Programming of Obesity-Experimental Evidence -- Placental delivery of amino acids. Utilization and production vs. transport -- Perinatal Programming of Adult Metabolic Homeostasis -- Programming Effects of Excess Glucocorticoid Exposure in Late Gestation -- Programming Effects of Excess Glucocorticoid Exposure in Late Gestation -- Emerging Frontiers -- Programming Effects of Moderate and Binge Alcohol Consumption -- Vitamin D in Pregnancy and Offspring Health -- The Fetal Origins of Adult Mental Illness -- Hypoxia, Fetal Growth and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.
Keywords: Human physiology; Developmental biology; Human genetics; Medicine; Obstetrics; Human Physiology; Developmental Biology; Human Genetics; Medicine/Public Health, general; Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery.