Early life origins of health and disease
By: edited by E. Marelyn Wintour, Julie A. Owens.
Contributors: Wintour, E. Marelyn.; Owens, Julie A.
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology ;; v. 573
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media; Landes Bioscience/Eurekah.com
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, N.Y; Georgetown, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Prenatal influences; Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation; Diseases -- Susceptibility; Embryonic Development; Fetal Development; Disease -- etiology; Disease Susceptibility; Maternal Exposure; Risk Factors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The developmental origins of health and disease: the breadth and importance of the concept / Peter D. Gluckman and Mark A. Hanson; title: Developmental origins of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity in humans / Caroline H.D. Fall; title: Studies of twins: what can they tell us about the developmental origins of adult health and disease? / Ruth Morley, Terence Dwyer, and John B. Carlin; title: Prenatal programming of human motor function / Julia B. Pitcher, David J. Henderson-Smart, and Jeffrey S. Robinson; title: Adaptive responses of early embryos to their microenvironment and consequences for post-implantation development / Jeremy Thompson, Michelle Lane, and Sarah Robertson; title: Modification of epigenetic state through dietary manipulation in the developing mammalian embryo / Nicola Vickaryous and Emma Whitelaw; title: Critical experiments to determine if early nutritional influences on epigenetic mechanisms cause metabolic imprinting in humans / Robert A. Waterland; title: Manipulation of the maternal diet in rat pregnancy: different approaches to the demonstration of the programming principle / Simon C. Langley-Evans  [et al.]; title: Programming hypertension-animal models: causes and mechanisms / Kate M. Denton, Michelle M. Kett, and Miodrag Dodic; title: Developmental programming of cardiovascular dysfunction / Lucilla Poston, James A. Armitage, and Paul D. Taylor; title: Kidney development and fetal programming / Karen M. Moritz and Luise A. Cullen-McEwen; title: Programming of obesity-experimental evidence / Bernhard H. Breier, Stefan O. Krechowec, and Mark H. Vickers; title: Perinatal programming of adult metabolic homeostasis: lessons from experimental studies / Kathryn l. Gatford  [et al.]; title: Programming effects of excess glucocorticoid exposure in late gestation / Timothy J.M. Moss and Deborah M. Sloboda; title: Programming effects of moderate and binge alcohol consumption / Jeff Schwartz and Luke C. Carey; title: Vitamin D in pregnancy and offspring health / Marianne Tare, Helena C. Parkington, and Ruth Morley; title: The fetal origins of adult mental illness / Laura Bennet and Alistair J. Gunn; title: Hypoxia, fetal growth and developmental origins of health and disease / Dino A. Giussani.