Environmental and genetical aspects of the link between pregnancy, birth size, and type 2 diabetes

Current Diabetes Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 155-161

  Vignini, Arianna ^b   Raffaelli, Francesca ^b   Cester, Annamaria ^b   Iannilli, Antonio ^a   Cherubini, Valentino ^a   Mazzanti, Laura ^a   Nanetti, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b Regional Center for Diabetes in Children and Adolescents   (Italy)

Author keywords

Childhood growth; Developmental Origins of Health and Disease hypothesis; Programming; Thrifty phenotype hypothesis; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

GLUCAGON; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUCOSE; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1ALPHA; INSULIN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP); SOMATOMEDIN B;

ADIPOCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN GROWTH; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIGENETICS; FETAL MALNUTRITION; FETUS GROWTH; GENE CONTROL; GENOTYPE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPID DIET; LONGEVITY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; FETAL NUTRITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 84861174368     PISSN: 15733998     EISSN: 18756417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157339912800563954     Document Type: Review

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