The early programming of metabolic health: Is epigenetic setting the missing link?

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Sebert, Sylvain ^a   Sharkey, Don ^a   Budge, Helen ^a   Symonds, Michael E ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A; ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; DNA; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA AGONIST; PROTEIN KINASE B; SIRTUIN 1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 2; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; LEPTIN; RNA POLYMERASE II;

CELL DIVISION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVELOPMENT; DNA METHYLATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GROWTH; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MACRONUTRIENT; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE SILENCING; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; METABOLISM; OBESITY; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UTERINE BLOOD VESSEL; VASCULARIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; DIET; DNA METHYLATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LEPTIN; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; METABOLIC DISEASES; MODELS, ANIMAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 82355190897     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.110.001040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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