Diet before and during Pregnancy and Offspring Health: The Importance of Animal Models and What Can Be Learned from Them

Preconception diet or exercise intervention in obese fathers normalizes sperm microRNA profile and metabolic syndrome in female offspring

(2015) Nicole O. McPherson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Duration of maternal undernutrition differentially alters fetal growth and hormone concentrations

(2015) M.E. Field et al.   DOMESTIC ANIMAL ENDOCRINOLOGY

Are semen parameters related to birth weight?

(2015) Céline Faure et al.   FERTILITY AND STERILITY

Placental contribution to nutritional programming of health and diseases: epigenetics and sexual dimorphism

(2015) A. Tarrade et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Engineering large animal models of human disease

(2015) C Bruce A Whitelaw et al.   JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY

A prospective study of maternal prenatal weight and offspring cardiometabolic health in midchildhood

(2014) Wei Perng et al.   ANNALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Long-term consequences of maternal overweight in pregnancy on offspring later health: Findings from the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

(2014) Johan G. Eriksson et al.   ANNALS OF MEDICINE

In Utero Undernutrition in Male Mice Programs Liver Lipid Metabolism in the Second-Generation Offspring Involving Altered Lxra DNA Methylation

(2014) Débora Martínez et al.   Cell Metabolism

Pre-gestational vs gestational exposure to maternal obesity differentially programs the offspring in mice

(2014) Isaac E. Sasson et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

Maternal weight gain in different periods of pregnancy and childhood cardio-metabolic outcomes. The Generation R Study

(2014) R Gaillard et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Early Developmental Conditioning of Later Health and Disease: Physiology or Pathophysiology?

(2014) M. A. Hanson et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Accumulation of advanced glycation end products in the rabbit blastocyst under maternal diabetes

(2014) Elisa Haucke et al.   REPRODUCTION

A Comparison of the Histological Structure of the Placenta in Experimental Animals

(2014) Satoshi Furukawa et al.   Journal of Toxicologic Pathology

Peri-conceptional obesogenic exposure induces sex-specific programming of disease susceptibilities in adult mouse offspring

(2013) M. Dahlhoff et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE

The periconceptional period, reproduction and long-term health of offspring: the importance of one-carbon metabolism

(2013) R. P. M. Steegers-Theunissen et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION UPDATE

Interventions to prevent adverse fetal programming due to maternal obesity during pregnancy

(2013) Peter W Nathanielsz et al.   NUTRITION REVIEWS

Transgenic Increase in N-3/N-6 Fatty Acid Ratio Reduces Maternal Obesity-Associated Inflammation and Limits Adverse Developmental Programming in Mice

(2013) Margaret J. R. Heerwagen et al.   PLoS One

Genetically engineered pig models for diabetes research

(2013) Eckhard Wolf et al.   TRANSGENIC RESEARCH

Fetoplacental biometry and umbilical artery Doppler velocimetry in the overnourished adolescent model of fetal growth restriction

(2012) David J. Carr et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Permanent Neonatal Diabetes in INSC94Y Transgenic Pigs

(2012) S. Renner et al.   DIABETES

Quantification of utero-placental vascularization in a rabbit model of IUGR with three-dimensional power Doppler angiography

(2012) E. Lecarpentier et al.   PLACENTA

Maternal-fetal resource allocation: Co-operation and conflict

(2012) A.L. Fowden et al.   PLACENTA

Maternal Obesity Enhances Collagen Accumulation and Cross-Linking in Skeletal Muscle of Ovine Offspring

(2012) Yan Huang et al.   PLoS One

Rabbit as a reproductive model for human health

(2012) Bernd Fischer et al.   REPRODUCTION

The use of ruminant models in biomedical perinatal research

(2012) O. Morel et al.   THERIOGENOLOGY

Developmental programming of adult obesity and cardiovascular disease in rodents by maternal nutrition imbalance

(2011) Claude Remacle et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Is it time to revisit the Pedersen hypothesis in the face of the obesity epidemic?

(2011) Patrick M. Catalano et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Effects of limited and excess protein intakes of pregnant gilts on carcass quality and cellular properties of skeletal muscle and subcutaneous adipose tissue in fattening pigs1,2

(2011) C. Rehfeldt et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

Prenatal exposure to maternal obesity leads to hyperactivity in offspring

(2011) C Fernandes et al.   MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY

Does maternal body mass index during pregnancy influence risk of schizophrenia in the adult offspring?

(2011) G. M. Khandaker et al.   Obesity Reviews

Developmental Programming in Response to Maternal Overnutrition

(2011) Maria Z. Alfaradhi et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Developmental Origins of Adult Health and Disease: The Role of Periconceptional and Foetal Nutrition

(2010) I. Caroline McMillen et al.   BASIC & CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY

Paternally Induced Transgenerational Environmental Reprogramming of Metabolic Gene Expression in Mammals

(2010) Benjamin R. Carone et al.   CELL

Maternal obesity in ewes results in reduced fetal pancreatic β-cell numbers in late gestation and decreased circulating insulin concentration at term

(2010) L. Zhang et al.   DOMESTIC ANIMAL ENDOCRINOLOGY

Transgenic pigs as models for translational biomedical research

(2010) Bernhard Aigner et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE-JMM

Chronic high-fat diet in fathers programs β-cell dysfunction in female rat offspring

(2010) Sheau-Fang Ng et al.   NATURE

Maternal obesity up-regulates inflammatory signaling pathways and enhances cytokine expression in the mid-gestation sheep placenta

(2010) M.J. Zhu et al.   PLACENTA

Hyperlipidic hypercholesterolemic diet in prepubertal rabbits affects gene expression in the embryo, restricts fetal growth and increases offspring susceptibility to obesity

(2010) O. Picone et al.   THERIOGENOLOGY

Maternal Diet, Behaviour and Offspring Skeletal Health

(2010) Laura R. Goodfellow et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Maternal obesity accelerates fetal pancreatic β-cell but not α-cell development in sheep: prenatal consequences

(2009) Stephen P. Ford et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Transient high glycaemic intake in the last trimester of pregnancy increases offspring birthweight and postnatal growth rate in sheep: a randomised control trial

(2009) NA Smith et al.   BJOG-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY

Established diet-induced obesity in female rats leads to offspring hyperphagia, adiposity and insulin resistance

(2009) P. Nivoit et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

Role of micronutrients in the periconceptional period

(2009) I. Cetin et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION UPDATE

Early programming of adipose tissue function: a large-animal perspective

(2009) Alison Mostyn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NUTRITION SOCIETY

Impact of the periconceptional environment on the programming of adult disease

(2009) A. J. Watkins et al.   Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Intergenerational Transmission of Glucose Intolerance and Obesity by In Utero Undernutrition in Mice

(2008) J. C. Jimenez-Chillaron et al.   DIABETES

AMP-activated protein kinase and adipogenesis in sheep fetal skeletal muscle and 3T3-L1 cells1

(2008) J. Tong et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

Developmental origins of disease and determinants of chromatin structure: maternal diet modifies the primate fetal epigenome

(2008) Kjersti M Aagaard-Tillery et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Intrauterine Growth Restriction in a Rodent Model and Developmental Programming of the Metabolic Syndrome: A Critical Appraisal of the Experimental Evidence

(2008) U. Neitzke et al.   PLACENTA

Maternal obesity at conception programs obesity in the offspring

(2007) Kartik Shankar et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY