Article
ROLE OF FETAL AND INFANT GROWTH IN PROGRAMMING METABOLISM IN LATER LIFE
1997-05-01
Abstract excerpt
ABSTRACT Fetal growth and development is dependent upon the nutritional, hormonal and metabolic environment provided by the mother. Any disturbance in this environment can modify early fetal development with possible long‐term outcomes as demonstrated by extensive work on ‘programming’. Growth restriction resulting from a deficit in tissue/organ cell number (as measured by tissue DNA content) is irrecoverable. How...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5b1d889d-52a0-52a0-b86b-7a3858e785b8
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1469-185x.1997.tb00016.x
