Impact of maternal diet on the epigenome during in utero life and the developmental programming of diseases in childhood and adulthood

Nutrients

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 9492-9507

  Lee, Ho Sun ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

Development; Epigenetics; Maternal nutrients; Metabolic syndrome

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; ANGIOPOIETIN 2; ANGIOTENSIN 1B RECEPTOR; BETAINE; CHOLINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYANOCOBALAMIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 3; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; FOLIC ACID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4ALPHA; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE DEACETYLASE; LIVER X RECEPTOR; MICRORNA; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NON RECEPTOR PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE 22; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA COACTIVATOR 1ALPHA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3, 4, 5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PREPROENKEPHALIN; PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE; SIRTUIN 1; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN C; WNT2 PROTEIN;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; CARBON METABOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LIPID DIET; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; ANIMAL; DIET; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIET; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; FEMALE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 84947426318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu7115467     Document Type: Review

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