Environmental regulation of placental phenotype: Implications for fetal growth

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 80-96

  Vaughan, O R ^a   Sferruzzi Perri, A N ^a   Coan, P M ^a   Fowden, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

developmental programming; epigenetics; glucocorticoids; insulin like growth factors; nutrition; system A

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; SOMATOMEDIN B;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMMING; EPIGENETICS; FETUS GROWTH; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RATS; RUMINANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 83155160802     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD11909     Document Type: Review

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