Table of Contents:
  • Early embryo development: the interplay between morphogenesis and the environment
  • Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) concept
  • How maternal nutrition influences events around conception and changes the programme of development
  • Maternal over or under-nutrition can both cause adverse health risk
  • Mechanistic understanding of how poor maternal nutrition leads to adult disease involving epigenetic, molecular, cellular, metabolic, and physiologic components