Prenatal Stress, Telomere Biology, and Fetal Programming of Health and Disease Risk

Chromatin replication and epigenome maintenance

(2012) Constance Alabert et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Variation in the Maternal Corticotrophin Releasing Hormone-Binding Protein (CRH-BP) Gene and Birth Weight in Blacks, Hispanics and Whites

(2012) Pathik D. Wadhwa et al.   PLoS One

Telomere Shortening in Formerly Abused and Never Abused Women

(2011) Janice Humphreys et al.   Biological Research for Nursing

Educational attainment but not measures of current socioeconomic circumstances are associated with leukocyte telomere length in healthy older men and women

(2011) Andrew Steptoe et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY

Healthy aging and disease: role for telomere biology?

(2011) Haidong Zhu et al.   CLINICAL SCIENCE

The Epidemiology of Human Telomeres: Faults and Promises

(2011) A. Aviv   JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES A-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

Telomeres and lifestyle factors: Roles in cellular aging

(2011) Jue Lin et al.   MUTATION RESEARCH-FUNDAMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MUTAGENESIS

Telomere dysfunction induces metabolic and mitochondrial compromise

(2011) Ergün Sahin et al.   NATURE

Clearance of p16Ink4a-positive senescent cells delays ageing-associated disorders

(2011) Darren J. Baker et al.   NATURE

Long-Term Persistence of Hormonal Adaptations to Weight Loss

(2011) Priya Sumithran et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Leukocyte Telomere Length in Major Depression: Correlations with Chronicity, Inflammation and Oxidative Stress - Preliminary Findings

(2011) Owen M. Wolkowitz et al.   PLoS One

Genome-Wide Association Study of Relative Telomere Length

(2011) Jennifer Prescott et al.   PLoS One

Stress exposure in intrauterine life is associated with shorter telomere length in young adulthood

(2011) S. Entringer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Embryonic exposure to corticosterone modifies the juvenile stress response, oxidative stress and telomere length

(2011) M. F. Haussmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Changes in stress, eating, and metabolic factors are related to changes in telomerase activity in a randomized mindfulness intervention pilot study

(2011) Jennifer Daubenmier et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Cause and Effect in Biology Revisited: Is Mayr's Proximate-Ultimate Dichotomy Still Useful?

(2011) K. N. Laland et al.   SCIENCE

Prenatal stress and developmental programming of human health and disease risk: concepts and integration of empirical findings

(2011) Sonja Entringer et al.   Current Opinion in Endocrinology Diabetes and Obesity

Brain anatomy of major depression II. Focus on amygdala

(2011) M. Bellani et al.   Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences

An evolutionary review of human telomere biology: The thrifty telomere hypothesis and notes on potential adaptive paternal effects

(2010) Dan T.A. Eisenberg   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Telomere length of patients with major depression is shortened but independent from therapy and severity of the disease

(2010) Nils Hartmann et al.   DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY

Cord blood telomere length, telomerase activity and inflammatory markers in pregnancies in women with diabetes or gestational diabetes

(2010) J. A. Cross et al.   DIABETIC MEDICINE

Telomeres are shorter in placental trophoblasts of pregnancies complicated with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR)

(2010) Tal Biron-Shental et al.   EARLY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

TERC telomerase subunit gene copy number in placentas from pregnancies complicated with intrauterine growth restriction

(2010) Tal Biron-Shental et al.   EARLY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Synchrony of telomere length among hematopoietic cells

(2010) Masayuki Kimura et al.   EXPERIMENTAL HEMATOLOGY

Telomerase reactivation reverses tissue degeneration in aged telomerase-deficient mice

(2010) Mariela Jaskelioff et al.   NATURE

Linking functional decline of telomeres, mitochondria and stem cells during ageing

(2010) Ergün Sahin et al.   NATURE

Common variants near TERC are associated with mean telomere length

(2010) Veryan Codd et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Reduced histone biosynthesis and chromatin changes arising from a damage signal at telomeres

(2010) Roderick J O'Sullivan et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Genome-wide association identifies OBFC1 as a locus involved in human leukocyte telomere biology

(2010) D. Levy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pathways linking the early environment to long-term health and lifespan

(2010) S.K. Barnes et al.   PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators

(2010) Tonya L. Jacobs et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Attenuation of maternal psychophysiological stress responses and the maternal cortisol awakening response over the course of human pregnancy

(2010) Sonja Entringer et al.   STRESS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON THE BIOLOGY OF STRESS

Prenatal psychosocial stress exposure is associated with subsequent working memory performance in young women.

(2009) Sonja Entringer et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Telomere aggregate formation in placenta specimens of pregnancies complicated with pre-eclampsia

(2009) Rivka Sukenik-Halevy et al.   CANCER GENETICS AND CYTOGENETICS

Poor maternal nutrition followed by accelerated postnatal growth leads to telomere shortening and increased markers of cell senescence in rat islets

(2009) J. L. Tarry-Adkins et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Chromosome end protection becomes even more complex

(2009) Jan Karlseder   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Spontaneous occurrence of telomeric DNA damage response in the absence of chromosome fusions

(2009) Anthony J Cesare et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Parental effects in ecology and evolution: mechanisms, processes and implications

(2009) A. V Badyaev et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fetal Growth Restriction is Associated with Accelerated Telomere Shortening and Increased Expression of Cell Senescence Markers in the Placenta

(2009) P. Davy et al.   PLACENTA

Telomere Length and Mortality: A Study of Leukocytes in Elderly Danish Twins

(2008) M. Kimura et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Influence of prenatal psychosocial stress on cytokine production in adult women

(2008) Sonja Entringer et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Absence of telomere shortening and oxidative DNA damage in the young adult offspring of women with pre-gestational type 1 diabetes

(2008) J. A. Cross et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

Maternal diet influences DNA damage, aortic telomere length, oxidative stress, and antioxidant defense capacity in rats

(2008) J. L. Tarry-Adkins et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

A glimmer of light for neuropsychiatric disorders

(2008) Steven E. Hyman   NATURE

Genes and causation

(2008) D. Noble   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Early-life origins of metabolic dysfunction: role of the adipocyte

(2008) Beverly Muhlhausler et al.   TRENDS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM