Early Life Origins of Health and Disease

Early Life Origins of Health and Disease is a new book which presents and discusses the many factors that may have impact on normal development. In a concise and readable manner, the authors consider both the proven and suggestive evidence that the high prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, obesity...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wintour-Coghlan, E. Marelyn (Editor), Owens, Julie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2006, 2006
Edition:1st ed. 2006
Series:Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • ProgrammingEffects 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