Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Environmental Exposures
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Developmental origins of adult health and disease.
BRAIN SPARING A human baby receiving an inadequate supply of nutrients or oxygen may protect its brain. One way in which it does this is by diverting more blood to the brain at the expense of the blood supply to the trunk. The growth of organs such as the liver is therefore ‘‘traded off’’ to protect growth of the brain. Brain sparing may also be effected through metabolic processes such as insu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Seminars in Reproductive Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1526-8004,1526-4564
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1237427