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The Placenta and Human Developmental Programming.
This unique text integrates contributions from world experts in placentology into the scientific discipline of developmental programming.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The maternal and placental origins of chronic disease; Chapter 3 Pre-and periconceptual health and the HPA axis: Nutrition and stress; Chapter 4 Nutrition and preimplantation development; Chapter 5 Maternofetal transport pathways during embryogenesis and organogenesis; Chapter 6 Imprinted genes and placental growth: Implications for the developmental origins of health and disease.
- Chapter 7 Genomic imprinting: Epigenetic control and potential roles in the developmental origins of postnatal health and diseaseChapter 8 Trophoblast invasion and uterine artery remodelling in primates; Chapter 9 The role of the maternal immune response in fetal programming; Chapter 10 Clinical causes and aspects of placental insufficiency; Chapter 11 Uterine blood flow as a determinant of fetoplacental development; Chapter 12 Placental amino acid transporters: The critical link between maternal nutrition and fetal programming?
- Chapter 13 Thematernal circulation and placental shape: Villus remodelling induced through haemodynamics and oxidative and endoplasmic reticulum stressChapter 14 Glucocorticoids and placental programming; Chapter 15 Clinical biomarkers of placental development; Chapter 16 The placental roots of cardiovascular disease; Chapter 17 Placental function and later risk of osteoporosis; Chapter 18 Final general discussion; Chapter 19 The placenta and developmental programming: Some reflections; Index.