Title:
Obesity Before Birth Maternal and prenatal influences on the offspring / edited by Robert H Lustig.
Endocrine Updates,
Endocrine updates,
Main Entry:
Lustig, Robert H.
SpringerLink (Online service)
Publisher:
Springer US,
Publication Date:
2011.
Publication Place:
Boston, MA :
ISBN:
9781441970343
Subject:
Medicine.
Human genetics.
Food science.
Endocrinology.
Medicine & Public Health.
Endocrinology.
Human genetics.
Food Science.
Series:
Endocrine Updates, 30
Endocrine updates, 30
Contents:
Preface -- Obesity: nature or nurture? -- The contribution of heredity to clinical obesity -- Monogenetic disorders within the energy balance pathway -- Ciliary syndromes and obesity -- Genome-wide association studies and human population obesity -- Known clinical epigenetic disorders with an obesity phenotype: Prader-Willi Syndrome and the GNAS locus -- Evidence for epigenetic changes as a cause of clinical obesity -- Epigenetic changes associated with intrauterine growth retardation and adipogenesis -- Exposure to diabetes in utero, offspring growth, and risk for obesity -- Maternal weight gain during pregnancy and obesity in the offspring -- Intrauterine growth restriction, small for gestational age, and experimental obesity -- Experimental models of maternal obesity and high-fat diet during pregnancy and programmed obesity in the offspring -- High carbohydrate intake only during the suckling period results in adult-onset obesity in mother as well as offspring -- Prenatal stress, glucocorticoids, and the metabolic syndrome -- Hypothalamic maldevelopment and developmental programming -- Adipocyte development and experimental obesity -- The obesogen hypothesis of obesity: overview and human evidence -- Perinatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals with estrogenic activity and the development of obesity -- The role of environmental obesogens in the obesity epidemic.
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Printed edition: 9781441970336
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