Pregnancy offers a window of opportunity to program the future health of both mothers and
offspring. During gestation, women experience a series of physical and metabolic …

Adverse stressful experiences in utero can redirect fetal brain development, ultimately
leading to increased risk for psychiatric disorders. Obesity during pregnancy can have …

Physiological shifts during pregnancy predispose women to a higher risk of developing
sepsis resulting from a maladapted host-response to infection. Insightful studies have …

Pregnancy is a unique physiological window for maternal and fetal health. Disorders that
arise during pregnancy influence the survival and health outcomes of mother and baby …

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a common complication of pregnancy that has been
associated with an increased risk of obesity and diabetes in the offspring. Pregnancy is …

Objective Maternal obesity increases the incidence of excess adiposity in newborns,
resulting in lifelong diabetes risk. Elevated intrauterine fetal adiposity has been attributed to …

Preeclampsia (PE) is one of the most common causes of maternal-fetal morbidity and
mortality world-wide. While the underlying causes of PE remain elusive, aberrant trophoblast …

In Brief Hormones secreted by muscle cells (myokines) are involved in the adaptive
response to nutritional and metabolic changes. In this review, we discuss how one family of …

Abstract Angiotensin (Ang)-(1-7) is an active peptide formed from Ang I or Ang-(1-9) by
multiple proteolytic steps involving angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) 1 and other …

Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is a pregnancy-specific hepatobiliary disease,
leading to an abnormal increase in total bile acid in the blood of pregnant women. To …