Gestational programming: Population survival effects of drought and famine during pregnancy

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 288, Issue 1 57-1, 2005, Pages

  Ross, Michael G ^a   Desai, Mina ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Appetite hormones; Hypertension; Obesity; Osmoregulation

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOREXIA; BODY FAT; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CATCH UP GROWTH; DEHYDRATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DROUGHT; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATION PERIOD; HUNGER; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPERTENSION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OSMOREGULATION; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHEEP; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; HUMANS; NATURAL DISASTERS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PRENATAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; RATS; SHEEP; STARVATION;

EID: 11144341916     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00418.2004     Document Type: Review

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