The fetal programming of telomere biology hypothesis: An update

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 373, Issue 1741, 2018, Pages

  Entringer, Sonja ^a,b,c   de Punder, Karin ^a,b   Buss, Claudia ^a,b,c   Wadhwa, Pathik D ^c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BERLIN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Fetal programming; Health and disease risk; Telomerase; Telomere

Indexed keywords

AGING; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CELL; CHROMOSOME; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENZYME; GENE EXPRESSION; HEALTH RISK; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHENOTYPE; RESEARCH WORK;

TELOMERASE;

AGE; ANIMAL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 85040665518     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0151     Document Type: Review

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