Fetal Development - Physiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Stress and obesity: the role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in metabolic disease.

29 Sep 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Chronic stress, combined with positive energy balance, may be a contributor to the increased risk for obesity, especially upper body obesity, and other metabolic diseases. This association may be mediated by alterations in the ... Read more...

Familial factors do not confound the association between birth weight and childhood asthma.

26 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Studies have found associations between low birth weight and asthma. However, this association could be due to familial confounding. Our objective was to investigate whether fetal growth and birth weight affect the risk of asthma in ... Read more...

Impact of maternal stress, depression and anxiety on fetal neurobehavioral development.

30 Aug 2009 Although postnatal psychologic distress has been widely studied for many years, particularly with a focus on postpartum depression, symptoms of maternal depression, stress, and anxiety are not more common or severe after childbirth than during ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Fetal Development - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Stress and obesity: the role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in metabolic disease. 29 Sep 2009
• Familial factors do not confound the association between birth weight and childhood asthma. 26 Sep 2009
• Impact of maternal stress, depression and anxiety on fetal neurobehavioral development. 30 Aug 2009
• Tetrahydrobiopterin in the prevention of hypertonia in hypoxic fetal brain. 30 Aug 2009
• The other side of the risk equation: exploring risks of untreated depression and anxiety in pregnancy. 30 Aug 2009
• Fetal eyeball volume: relationship to gestational age and biparietal diameter. 30 Jul 2009
• Advancing fetal brain MRI: targets for the future. 30 Jul 2009
• Normal development of the fetal brain by MRI. 30 Jul 2009
• Success of programming fetal growth phenotypes among obese women. 30 Jul 2009
• Human cardiac development in the first trimester: a high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging and episcopic fluorescence image capture atlas. 26 Jul 2009
• Effect of intrauterine fetal programming on response to postnatal shaker stress in endothelial nitric oxide knockout mouse model. 24 Jul 2009
• Al-Awadi/Raas-Rothschild/Schinzel (AARRS) phocomelia syndrome: case report and developmental field analysis. 29 Jun 2009
• Prenatal growth and early postnatal influences on adult motor cortical excitability. 29 Jun 2009
• Discussion: 'Microcephaly associated with congenital heart defect' by Barbu et al. 29 Jun 2009
• Cardiac structures track during the first 2 years of life and are associated with fetal growth and hemodynamics: the Generation R Study. 29 Jun 2009
• Changes in Doppler flow velocity waveforms and fetal size at 20 weeks gestation among cigarette smokers. 27 Jun 2009
• Ontogeny of fetal movements in the guinea pig. 24 Jun 2009
• Fetal cerebellar volume and symmetry on 3-d ultrasound: volume measurement with multiplanar and vocal techniques. 19 Jun 2009
• Effects of prenatal multimicronutrient supplementation on pregnancy outcomes: a meta-analysis. 7 Jun 2009
• Prenatal micronutrient supplementation: are we there yet? 7 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Fetal Development'

Definition: Morphological and physiological development of FETUSES.

Descriptor UI: D047109

Alternative terms: Fetal Development; Development, Fetal; Fetal Programming; Fetal Programmings; Fetal Growth; Growth, Fetal;

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects; genetics; immunology; physiology; radiation effects;

Tree Number: G07.700.320.500.325.235; G08.686.785.760.170.157;

History Note: 2005, 1985-2002; use EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT 2003-2004

Technical Notes: mammalian only