Developmental origins of health and disease /
edited by Peter Gluckman, Mark Hanson.
- xvi, 519 pages, 6 unnumbered pages plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm
Peter Gluckman is a New Zealand author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The developmental origins of health and disease : an overview / The 'developmental origins' hypothesis : epidemiology / The conceptual basis for the developmental origins of health and disease / The periconceptional and embryonic period / Epigenetic mechanisms / A mitochondrial component of developmental programming / Role of exposure to environmental chemicals in developmental origins of health and disease / Maternal nutrition and fetal growth and development / Placental mechanisms and developmental origins of health and disease / Control of fetal metabolism : relevance to developmental origins of health and disease / Lipid metabolism : relevance to developmental origins of health and disease / Prenatal hypoxia : relevance to developmental origins of health and disease / The fetal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis : relevance to developmental origins of health and disease / Perinatal influences on the endocrine and metabolic axes during childhood / Patterns of growth : relevance to developmental origins of health and disease / The developmental environment and the endocrine pancreas / The developmental environment and insulin resistance / The developmental environment and the development of obesity / The developmental environment and its role in the metabolic syndrome / Programming the cardiovascular system / The role of vascular dysfunction in developmental origins of health and disease : evidence from human and animal studies / The developmental environment and atherogenesis / The developmental environment, renal function and disease / The developmental environment : effect on fluid and electrolyte homeostasis / The developmental environment : effects on lung structure and function / Developmental origins of asthma and related allergic disorders / The developmental environment : influences on subsequent cognitive function and behaviour / The developmental environment and the origins of neurological disorders / The developmental environment : clinical perspectives on effects on the musculoskeletal system / The developmental environment : experimental perspectives on skeletal development / The developmental environment and the early origins of cancer / The developmental environment : implications for ageing and life span / Developmental origins of health and disease : implications for primary intervention for cardiovascular and metabolic disease / Developmental origins of health and disease : public-health perspectives / Developmental origins of health and disease : implications for developing countries / Developmental origins of health and disease : ethical and social considerations / Past obstacles and future promise / Peter D. Gluckman and Mark A. Hanson -- Keith Godfrey -- Peter D. Gluckman and Mark A. Hanson -- Tom R. Fleming -- Emma Whitelaw and David Garrick -- Josie M. L. McConnell -- Jerrold J. Heindel and Cindy Lawler -- Susan M. B. Morton -- Leslie Myatt and Victoria Roberts -- Abigail L. Fowden, Janelle W. Ward and Alison J. Forhead -- Graham C. Burdge and Philip C. Calder -- Dino A. Giussani -- Deborah M. Sloboda, John P. Newnham, Timothy J. M. Moss and John R. G. Challis -- W. S. Cutfield, C. A. Jefferies and P. L. Hofman -- Johan G. Eriksson -- Brigitte Reusens, Luise Kalbe and Claude Remacle -- Noel H. Smith and Susan E. Ozanne -- Michael E. Symonds and David S. Gardner -- Christopher D. Byrne and David I. W. Phillips -- Kent L. Thornburg -- Lucilla Poston, Christopher Torrens, James A. Armitage and Mark A. Hanson -- C. Napoli, O. Pignalosa, L. Rossi, C. Botti, C. Guarino, V. Sica and F. de Nigris -- Karen M. Moritz, E. Marelyn Wintour and Miodrag Dodic -- Mostafa A. El-Haddad and Michael G. Ross -- Richard Harding, Megan L. Cock and Gert S. Maritz -- J. O. Warner -- Jason Landon, Michael Davison and Bernhard H. Breier -- Sandra Rees, Richard Harding and Terrie Inder -- Cyrus Cooper, Avan Aihie Sayer and Elaine Margaret Dennison -- Richard O. C. Oreffo and Helmtrud I. Roach -- Anders Ekbom -- Thomas B. L. Kirkwood -- Terrence Forrester -- Catherine Law and Janis Baird -- Caroline H. D. Fall and Harshpal Singh Sachdev -- Ray Noble -- D. J. P. Barker. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37.
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Developmental biology. Embryology, Human Prenatal influences Diseases--Causes and theories of causation Disease susceptibility.