Postnatal growth and development of the human body and its specific organs are regulated
by a complex network of local and systemic factors which is poorly understood. This review …

Leptin influences satiety, adiposity, and metabolism and is associated with mechanisms
regulating puberty onset, fertility, and pregnancy in various species. Maternal …

Prenatal maternal immune activation (MIA) is associated with altered brain development and
risk of psychiatric disorders in offspring. Translational human studies of MIA are few in …

Objective: To determine if massage therapy increased serum insulin and insulin-like growth
factor-1 (IGF-1) in preterm neonates. Study Design: Forty-two preterm neonates who …

Common chronic diseases of Western societies, such as coronary heart disease, diabetes
mellitus, cancer, hypertension, obesity, dementia, and allergic diseases are significantly …

Despite optimized nutrition, preterm-born infants grow slowly and tend to over-accrete body
fat. We hypothesize that the premature dissociation of the maternal–placental–fetal unit …

The identification of genes that regulate fetal growth will help establish the reasons for
intrauterine growth restriction. Most autosomal genes are expressed biallelically, but some …

Background Preterm infants require high protein intake to achieve adequate growth and
development. Although breast milk feeding has many benefits for this population, the protein …

Objective To determine the influence of gestational age and fetal growth restriction on the
cord blood adipokine profile, IGF1, and ghrelin levels, and their relationship with glucose …

In this paper, potential underlying mechanisms for massage therapy effects on preterm infant
weight gain are reviewed. Path analyses are presented suggesting that:(1) increased vagal …