Maternal obesity and fetal metabolic programming: A fertile epigenetic soil

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 299, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Heerwagen, Margaret J R ^a   Miller, Melissa R ^b   Barbour, Linda A ^a   Friedman, Jacob E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Global Health and Health Disparities   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Epigenetics; Inflammation; Lipids; Nutrition; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HORMONE DERIVATIVE; LIPID; OXYGEN; SATURATED FATTY ACID;

CELL FATE; CHROMATIN; COVALENT BOND; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY BALANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; EPIGENETICS; FETUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; INFLAMMATION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID METABOLISM; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLIC REGULATION; MITOCHONDRION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NUTRIENT; OBESITY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; MATERNAL NUTRITION; PREGNANCY;

EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 77956660200     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00310.2010     Document Type: Review

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