Principles of DNA methylation and their implications for biology and medicine

Y Dor, H Cedar - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
DNA methylation represents an annotation system for marking the genetic text, thus
providing instruction as to how and when to read the information and control transcription …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity pandemic: causes, consequences, and solutions—but do we have the will?

DR Meldrum, MA Morris, JC Gambone - Fertility and sterility, 2017 - Elsevier
Obesity has become pandemic owing to an obesogenic environment (inexpensive calorie
dense food, technologies and structure of communities that reduce or replace physical …

Placental origins of chronic disease

GJ Burton, AL Fowden… - Physiological …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Epidemiological evidence links an individual's susceptibility to chronic disease in adult life to
events during their intrauterine phase of development. Biologically this should not be …

Maternal microbiota, early life colonization and breast milk drive immune development in the newborn

C Kalbermatter, N Fernandez Trigo… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The innate immune system is the oldest protection strategy that is conserved across all
organisms. Although having an unspecific action, it is the first and fastest defense …

[HTML][HTML] Homeostasis, inflammation, and disease susceptibility

ME Kotas, R Medzhitov - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
While modernization has dramatically increased lifespan, it has also witnessed the
increasing prevalence of diseases such as obesity, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes. Such …

Early developmental conditioning of later health and disease: physiology or pathophysiology?

MA Hanson, PD Gluckman - Physiological reviews, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Extensive experimental animal studies and epidemiological observations have shown that
environmental influences during early development affect the risk of later pathophysiological …

Maternal diabetes during pregnancy and early onset of cardiovascular disease in offspring: population based cohort study with 40 years of follow-up

Y Yu, OA Arah, Z Liew, S Cnattingius, J Olsen… - Bmj, 2019 - bmj.com
Objective To evaluate the associations between maternal diabetes diagnosed before or
during pregnancy and early onset cardiovascular disease (CVD) in offspring during their first …

Long-term cardiovascular consequences of fetal growth restriction: biology, clinical implications, and opportunities for prevention of adult disease

F Crispi, J Miranda, E Gratacós - American journal of obstetrics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the modern world, cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death for both men and
women. Epidemiologic studies consistently have suggested an association between low …

How nutrition and the maternal microbiota shape the neonatal immune system

AJ Macpherson, MG De Agüero… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
The mucosal surfaces of mammals are densely colonized with microorganisms that are
commonly referred to as the commensal microbiota. It is believed that the fetus in utero is …

Psychoneuroimmunology of early-life stress: the hidden wounds of childhood trauma?

A Danese, SJ Lewis - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017 - nature.com
The brain and the immune system are not fully formed at birth, but rather continue to mature
in response to the postnatal environment. The two-way interaction between the brain and …