Role of fetal and infant growth in programming metabolism in later life

Biological Reviews

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 329-348

  Desai, M ^a   Hales, C N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Maternal nutrition; Non insulin dependent diabetes; Nutritional programming

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CHILD GROWTH; FETUS GROWTH; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMAN; LACTATION; LIFESPAN; LIVER METABOLISM; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; ORGAN GROWTH; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN RESTRICTION;

ANIMALS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0031011711     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.1997.tb00016.x     Document Type: Article

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