Lifetime consequences of abnormal fetal pancreatic development

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 547, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-20

  Holemans, Kathleen ^a   Aerts, L ^a   Van Assche, F A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; STREPTOZOCIN;

ADAPTATION; ADULTHOOD; ARTERY LIGATION; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CELL MATURATION; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN RELEASE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LIFESPAN; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STARVATION; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; INSULIN RESISTANCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALNUTRITION; PANCREAS ISLET DISEASE; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CALORIC RESTRICTION; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION;

EID: 0037440723     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.036582     Document Type: Review

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