Early Life Origins of Health and Disease

The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.- The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.- Should we intervene to improve fetal growth?.- Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease, Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity in Humans.- Growth and development of human twins.- Studies of Twins.- Practice-induced plasticity in the human motor cortex.- Prenatal Programming of Human Motor Function.- Adaptive Responses of Early Embryos to Their Microenvironment and Consequences for Post-Implantation Development.- Adaptive Responses of Early Embryos to Their Microenvironment and Consequences for Post-Implantation Development.- Modification of Epigenetic State through Dietary Manipulation in the Developing Mammalian Embryo.- Modification of Epigenetic State through Dietary Manipulation in the Developing Mammalian Embryo.- Overview of epigenetic mechanisms.- Critical Experiments to Determine if Early Nutritional Influences on Epigenetic Mechanisms Cause Metabolic Imprinting in Humans.- Nutritional programming and the development of hypertension.- Manipulation of the Maternal Diet in Rat Pregnancy.- Hypertension in pregnant women.- Programming Hypertension-Animal Models.- Developmental Programming of Cardiovascular Dysfunction.- Developmental Programming of Cardiovascular Dysfunction.- Kidney Development and Fetal Programming.- Kidney Development and Fetal Programming.- Programming of Obesity-Experimental Evidence.- Programming of Obesity-Experimental Evidence.- Placental delivery of amino acids. Utilization and production vs. transport.- Perinatal Programming of Adult Metabolic Homeostasis.- Programming Effects of Excess Glucocorticoid Exposure in Late Gestation.- Programming Effects of Excess Glucocorticoid Exposure in Late Gestation.- Emerging Frontiers.- Programming Effects of Moderate and Binge Alcohol Consumption.- Vitamin D in Pregnancy and Offspring Health.- The Fetal Origins of Adult Mental Illness.- Hypoxia, Fetal Growth and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.