Food as exposure: Nutritional epigenetics and the new metabolism

BioSocieties

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 167-194

  Landecker, Hannah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

developmental origins of health and disease; diet; epigenetics; metabolism; molecularization; nutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860398169     PISSN: 17458552     EISSN: 17458560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2011.1     Document Type: Article

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