Predicting later-life outcomes of early-life exposures

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1353-1361

  Boekelheide, Kim ^a   Blumberg, Bruce ^b   Chapin, Robert E ^c   Cote, Ila ^d   Graziano, Joseph H ^e   Janesick, Amanda ^b   Lane, Robert ^f   Lillycrop, Karen ^g   Myatt, Leslie ^h   States, J Christopher ⁱ   Thayer, Kristina A ^j   Waalkes, Michael P ^j   Rogers, John M ^k  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^e Department of Medicine   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^h University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

ⁱ University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^k U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Arsenic; Development; Epigenetics; Exposure; Fetal; Malnutrition; Obesogen; PPAR

Indexed keywords

11BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE 2; ACYL COENZYME A OXIDASE; ARSENIC; CARCINOGEN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA 126; MICRORNA 16; MICRORNA 21; ORGANOTIN COMPOUND; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP); RETINOID X RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ADIPOCYTE; CARCINOGENESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FETAL MALNUTRITION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIFE EVENT; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLIC BALANCE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MICE; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84867267887     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1204934     Document Type: Review

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