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Fetal undernutrition and disease in adult disease

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Recent Developments in Infant Nutrition

Part of the book series: Tenth Nutricia Symposium ((NUSY,volume 9))

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Abstract

During embryonic life, that is during the 8 weeks after conception, the basic form of the human baby is laid down in miniature. The 5-week-old embryo does not contain a description of the person to whom it will give rise. Rather it contains in its genes a generative programme for making a person, a programme that has been likened to a recipe (1). As development proceeds the destiny of cells becomes determined by their surroundings, by the position they come to occupy in the body, by the signals they receive from neighbouring cells and hence by the genes which become activated.

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Abbreviations

CHD:

coronary heart disease

PEPCK:

phosphoenol pyruvate carboxykinase

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Barker, D.J.P. (1996). Fetal undernutrition and disease in adult disease. In: Bindels, J.G., Goedhart, A.C., Visser, H.K.A. (eds) Recent Developments in Infant Nutrition. Tenth Nutricia Symposium, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1790-3_1

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