The Interplay Between Nutrition and Stress in Pregnancy: Implications for Fetal Programming of Brain Development.

ABSTRACT: Growing evidence supports an important role for the intrauterine environment in shaping fetal development and subsequent child health and disease risk. The fetal brain is particularly plastic, whereby even subtle changes in structure and function produced by in utero conditions can have long-term implications. Based on the consideration that conditions related to energy substrate and likelihood of survival to reproductive age are particularly salient drivers of fetal programming, maternal nutrition and stress represent the most commonly, but independently, studied factors in this context. However, the effects of maternal nutrition and stress are context dependent and may be moderated by one another. Studies examining the effects of the bidirectional nutrition-stress interplay in pregnancy

SUBMITTER: Lindsay KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6389360 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature