Both epidemiologic and experimental animal studies demonstrate that chronic psychological
stress exerts adverse effects on the initiation and/or progression of many diseases …

Background: There is growing evidence that maternal obesity and prenatal exposure to a
high-fat diet program fetal development to regulate the physiology and behavior of the …

In the past decades, evidence supporting the transmission of acquired traits across
generations has reshaped the field of genetics and the understanding of disease …

Early life stress is one of the most explicit and undisputed environmental risk factors for
disease later in life, including metabolic and psychiatric diseases. The developmental timing …

Prenatal stress (PNS) might affect the developmental programming of adult chronic diseases
such as metabolic and mood disorders. The molecular mechanisms underlying such …

Early life stress (ELS) is a potent developmental disruptor and increases the risk for
psychopathology. Various forms of ELS have been studied in both humans and rodents, and …

Glucocorticoid overexposure during pregnancy programmes offspring physiology and
predisposes to later disease. However, any impact of ethologically relevant maternal stress …

BACKGROUND: There has been recent interest in the possibility that epigenetic
mechanisms might contribute to the transgenerational transmission of stress-induced …

Studies show that adverse conditions during early life can increase risks of developing
mood disorders later in life. It is currently hypothesized that levels of environmental adversity …

Background Chronic stress is considered to be one of many causes of human preterm birth
(PTB), but no direct evidence has yet been provided. Here we show in rats that stress across …