Placental protection of the fetal brain during short-term food deprivation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 37, 2011, Pages 15237-15241

  Broad, Kevin D ^a   Keverne, Eric B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genomic imprinting; Mother infant coadaptation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MATERNALLY IMPRINTED GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PATERNALLY EXPRESSED GENE 3; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AUTOPHAGY; BRAIN; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053078034     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1106022108     Document Type: Article

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