Molecular nutrition : mother and infant /: mother and infant. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Manlio Vinciguerra, Paul Cordero Sanchez.
• Editors: Vinciguerra, Manlio; Sanchez, Paul Cordero
• Contents: Part 1: General and Introductory Aspects 1. Diet and maternal nutrition: an overview 2. Placenta metabolism 3. Pregnancy and weight gain 4. Breast milk feeding and impact on the infant: an overview 5. Feeding practices of infants 6. Nutritionally-driven gestational diseases and impact on health of the mother and infant 7. Glucose metabolism and pregnancy 8. Immune aspects of pregnancy and role of nutrition 9. Vitamin status in pregnancy and newborns 10. Fatty acid intake during perinatal periods 11. Mineral in pregnancy and newborns 12. Perinatal interventions; current and future perspectives 13. Perinatal nutrition and obesity Part 2: Molecular Biology of the Cell 14. Molecular aspects of fetal programming 15. Molecular aspects of dietary bioactive compounds in pregnancy 16. Amino acid transporters and protein metabolism in intrauterine growth (can focus on a single or groups of amino acids such as tryptophan) 17. Maternal micronutrients and one carbon metabolism 18. Overnutrition and mitochondrial function 19. mTOR, insulin/IGF-I signalling in relation to nutrients in pregnancy 20. Maternal high fat diet and molecular aspects of vascular function 21. Caffeine exposure and CNS developmental processes Part 3: Genetic Machinery and Its Function 22. Genetic risk factors in nutrient metabolism and fetal development 23. Pregnancy loss and polymorphisms in folic acid genes 24. Maternal vitamins and DNA methylation and implications for offspring (may want to focus on B vitamins) 25. Maternal obesity, and genes involved in lipid metabolism 26. Diet in lactation periods and impact on cancer: genetic aspects of mammary tissue 27. Maternal diet consumption and microRNAs 28. Vitamins (example of vitamin D) in pregnancy and gene expression 29. Epigenetic changes associated to different fat consumption 30. Epigenetic genes and maternal obesity 31. Transcriptomics of cord blood and implications for nutrition and diet 32. Maternal undernutrition and organ microRNAs 33. Genomic imprinting and fetal development (to link with nutrition and growth) 34. Nutritional influence on miRNA epigenetic regulation
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 618.242; Mothers -- Nutrition; Newborn infants -- Nutrition; Pregnancy -- Nutritional aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128138632
• Related ISBNs: 9780128138625
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