Perinatal Programming explores the evidence linking the role of early life events to long-term physical and psychological health outcomes.

Features:

• Pulls together the widely scattered research in this field
• Includes contributions from an international panel, some of whom are in the first line of research
• Takes an interdisciplinary approach

Contents

• Prenatal Determinants of Fetal Growth, Birth Outcomes and Later Disease Risk
• The Role of the Mother, Placenta and Fetus in the Control of Fetal Growth During Human Pregnancy
• Prenatal Stress Influences Human Fetal Development and Birth Outcomes: Implications for Developmental Origins of Health & Disease
• Maternal Nutrition & Later Disease Risk
• Prenatal Programming of the Neuroendocrine System- Links to Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease
• Prenatal Glucocorticoid Exposure & Adult Pathophysiology
• Neuroendocrine Programming of Adult Disease: Current Perspectives and Future Directions
• Prenatal Programming of Postnatal Obesity
• Programming the Fetal Pancreatic Axes
• Perinatal Programming of Metabolic Homeostasis
• Development of Domestic Animal Models for the Study of the Ontogeny of Human Disease
• Early Life Programming of Immunity- Links to Infectious and Allergic Disorders
• Prenatal Influences on Immunity and the Developmental Trajectory of Infant Primates
• Role of Prenatal Events in the Development of Allergic Disease
• Perinatal Characteristics and Asthma and Allergies in Off-Spring
• Maternal Alcohol Consumption And Neuro-Endocrine-Immune Interactions In The Offspring
• The 'Old Friends' Hypothesis: How Early Contact with Certain Microorganisms May Influence Immunoregulatory Circuits
• Early Life Programming of Pain Responsiveness
• Long-Term Effects of Repetitive Pain in the Neonatal Period: Neuronal Vulnerability, Imprinting, and Plasticity
• Pain Sensitivity During Ontogeny and Long-Term Effects of Prenatal Noxious Events
• Perinatal Factors Altering Behavioural Outcomes
• Prenatal Androgens and the Ontogeny of Behavior
• The Role of Prenatal Stress in the Programming of Behavior
• Antenatal Programming of Child Behaviour and Neurodevelopment : Links with Maternal Stress and Anxiety
• Cytokines, Social Development, and Psychopathology: An Empirical and Theoretical Integration
• Future Directions: Pre- and Postnatal Modulation of the Genetic Program
• Genomic Imprinting and Epigenetic Programming of Fetal Development
• Maternal Programming of Glucocorticoid Receptor Expression and HPA Responses to Stress Through DNA Methylation in the Rat

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