Exposure to non-nutritive sweeteners during pregnancy and lactation: Impact in programming of metabolic diseases in the progeny later in life

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2014, Pages 196-201

  Araújo, João Ricardo ^a   Martel, Fátima ^a   Keating, Elisa ^a,b  

^a University of Porto   (Portugal)

^b CBQF CENTRO DE BIOTECNOLOGIA E QUÍMICA FINA LABORATÓRIO ASSOCIADO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fetal programming; Metabolic syndrome; Non nutritive sweeteners; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ACESULFAME; ADVANTAME; ASPARTAME; GLUCOSE; NEOTAME; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NONNUTRITIVE SWEETENER; SACCHARIN; SUCRALOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CALORIC INTAKE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EXPOSURE; FOOD INTAKE; GESTATION PERIOD; GLUCOSE ABSORPTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTATION; LEARNING DISORDER; LIPID STORAGE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEOPLASM; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PROGENY; REVIEW; REWARD; SAFETY; STEVIA; TASTE BUD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; MALE;

ASPARTAME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTATION; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; NON-NUTRITIVE SWEETENERS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 84907525383     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: 18731708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2014.09.007     Document Type: Review

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