Early Infant Nutrition and Metabolic Programming: What Are the Potential Molecular Mechanisms?

Current Nutrition Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 281-288

  Ruchat, Stephanie May ^a,b   Bouchard, Luigi ^a,b   Hivert, Marie France ^c,d,e  

^a CHICOUTIMI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Disease programming; Early infant nutrition; Epigenomics; Formula feeding; Proteomics; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; MICRORNA; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BREAST FEEDING; CHILD HEALTH CARE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; INFANT NUTRITION; LEPTIN GENE; METABOLIC REGULATION; METABOLOMICS; MICROBIOME; NUTRITIONAL PROGRAMMING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84948385875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21613311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13668-014-0088-0     Document Type: Review

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