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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 364, 期 1534, 页码 3419-3427出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0121
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nutrition; programming; reproduction; fertility
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- BBSRC [BB/E00797X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E00797X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- British Heart Foundation [FS/09/029/27902] Funding Source: researchfish
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E00797X/1] Funding Source: Medline
- British Heart Foundation [FS/09/029/27902] Funding Source: Medline
The early-life developmental environment is instrumental in shaping our overall adult health and well-being. Early-life diet and endocrine exposure may independently, or in concert with our genetic constitution, induce a pathophysiological process that amplifies with age and leads to premature morbidity and mortality. Recently, this has become known as 'programming' but is akin to 'maternal effects' described for many years in the biological sciences and is defined as any influence that acts during critical developmental windows to induce long-term changes in the organisms' phenotype. To date, such delayed maternal effects have largely been characterized in terms of susceptibility to cardiovascular or metabolic disease. Here, we review evidence from experimental animal species, non-human primates and man for an effect of the early-life nutritional environment on adult fecundity and fertility. In addition, using a database of pedigree sheep, we also specifically test the hypothesis that being born small for gestational age with or without post-natal growth acceleration directly programmes fertility. We conclude that there is a lack of compelling evidence to suggest pre-natal undernutrition may directly reduce adult fecundity and fertility, but may exert some effects secondarily via an increased incidence of 'metabolic syndrome'. Possible effects of being born relatively large on subsequent fecundity and fertility warrant further investigation.
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