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Fetal programming and environmental exposures: implications for prenatal care and preterm birth
Author(s) -
Schug Thaddeus T.,
Erlebacher Adrian,
Leibowitz Sarah,
Ma Liang,
Muglia Louis J.,
Rando Oliver J.,
Rogers John M.,
Romero Roberto,
Saal Frederick S. vom,
Wise David L.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/nyas.12003
Subject(s) - fetal programming , medicine , prenatal care , pregnancy , environmental health , family medicine , gerontology , fetus , population , genetics , biology
Sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, with support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and Life Technologies, “Fetal Programming and Environmental Exposures: Implications for Prenatal Care and Preterm Birth” was held on June 11–12, 2012 at the New York Academy of Sciences in New York City. The meeting, comprising individual talks and panel discussions, highlighted basic, clinical, and translational research approaches, and highlighted the need for specialized testing of drugs, consumer products, and industrial chemicals, with a view to the unique impacts these can have during gestation. Speakers went on to discuss many other factors that affect prenatal development, from genetics to parental diet, revealing the extraordinary sensitivity of the developing fetus.