Pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (PitNETs) represent the neoplastic proliferation of the
anterior pituitary gland. Transcription factors play a key role in the differentiation of PitNETs …

Nanotechnology has been developing rapidly and is now used in many cutting-edge
medical therapeutics. However, there is increasing concern that exposure to nanoparticles …

Assisted reproductive technology (ART) has been associated with increased risk for growth
disturbance and imprinting disorders, but the molecular mechanisms and whether they are a …

Parental care is found widely across animal taxa and is manifest in a range of behaviours
from basic provisioning in cockroaches to highly complex behaviours seen in mammals. The …

This edited volumeaims to describe physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms that
underlie human maternal-fetal interactions. The book emphasizes the structure and …

印迹基因是由大约100 个基因组成的一类特殊子集, 主要以亲本单等位基因的方式表达,
对胚胎的生长发育具有重要作用. 近年来发现, 环境因素所引起的印迹基因表观遗传修饰改变可 …

Essential fatty acids (EFAs) and their derivatives, the long and very long chain
polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs), are preferentially transported by the mother to the …

Victims of a radiation terrorist event will include pregnant women and unborn fetuses.
Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress are key pathogenic factors of fetal irradiation …

Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon resulting in monoallelic expression of a
gene depending on its parental origin. It plays an important role in embryonic, fetal and …

Pregnancy is a unique situation, in which two (or more) individuals are in intimate contact,
with development of the foetus supported by a specialised structure called the placenta. The …