Perinatal programming
Subtitle: early life determinants of adult health & disease
By: edited by Deborah M. Hodgson, Christopher L. Coe ; foreword by David Barker.
Contributors: Hodgson, Deborah M.; Coe, Christopher L.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects -- physiopathology; Fetal Development; Fetal Diseases; Maternal Exposure -- adverse effects; Maternal-Fetal Exchange -- physiology; Prenatal influences; Perinatology; Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation; Disease susceptibility
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The role of the mother, placenta, and fetus in the control of fetal growth during human pregnancy.; title: Maternal nutrition and later disease risk.; title: Prenatal stress influences human fetal development and birth outcomes: implications for developmental origins of health and disease.; title: Prenatal glucocorticoid exposure and adult pathophysiology.; title: Neuroendocrine programming of adult disease: current perspectives and future directions.; title: Prenatal programming of postnatal obesity.; title: Programming the fetal pancreatic axes.; title: Perinatal programming of metabolic homeostasis.; title: Development of domestic animal models for the study of the ontogeny of human disease.; title: Prenatal influences on immunity and the developmental trajectory of infant primates.; title: Role of prenatal events in the development of allergic disease.; title: Perinatal characteristics and asthma and allergies in offspring.; title: Maternal alcohol consumption and neuroendocrine-immune interactions in the offspring.; title: The "Old Friends" hypothesis: how early contact with certain microorganisms may influence immunoregulatory circuits.; title: Long-term effects of repetitive pain in the neonatal period: neuronal vulnerability, imprinting, and plasticity.; title: Pain sensitivity during ontogeny and long-term effects of prenatal noxious events.; title: Prenatal androgens and the ontogeny of behavior.; title: The role of prenatal stress in the programming of behavior.; title: Antenatal programming of child behavior and neurodevelopment: links with maternal stress and anxiety.; title: Cytokines, social development, and psychopathology: an empirical and theoretical integration.; title: Genomic imprinting and epigenetic programming of fetal development.; title: Maternal programming of glucocorticoid receptor expression and HPA responses to stress through DNA methylation in the rat.