Adipose tissue and fetal programming

Diabetologia

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1597-1606

  Symonds, M E ^a   Pope, M ^a   Sharkey, D ^a   Budge, H ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brown adipose tissue; Development; Fetal programming; Fetus; Glucose; Insulin; Nutrition; Pregnancy; Review; White adipose tissue

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; UNCOUPLING PROTEIN 1;

BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EPIGENETICS; FETAL PROGRAMMING; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS MONITORING; GENDER; GESTATION PERIOD; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIFE CYCLE; MACROPHAGE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; TISSUE GROWTH; WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE, BROWN; ADIPOSE TISSUE, WHITE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84865436099     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: 14320428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-012-2505-5     Document Type: Review

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