BACKGROUND Reproductive disorders and infertility are associated with the risk of
obstetric complications and have a negative impact on pregnancy outcome. Affected …

Most IVF-conceived children are healthy, but IVF has also been associated with adverse
obstetric and perinatal outcomes as well as congenital anomalies. There is also literature …

Successful establishment of pregnancy requires adhesion of an embryo to the endometrium
and subsequent invasion into the maternal tissue. Abnormalities in this critical process of …

Background Non-persistent chemicals, such as phthalates, environmental phenols,
organophosphate pesticides, and others, are challenging to study because of their ubiquity …

Epidemiologic studies have shown an increased rate of adverse perinatal outcomes,
including small for gestational age (SGA) births, in fresh in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles …

Dietary components are essential for the structural and functional development of the brain.
Among these, docosahexaenoic acid, 22: 6n-3 (DHA), is critically necessary for the structure …

Early stages of mammalian embryonic development are now known to be very sensitive to
their microenvironment, with long term effects on fetal, postnatal, and adult health, thus …

Altered stress reactivity is a predominant feature of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and
may reflect disease vulnerability, increasing the probability that an individual will develop …

Development of assisted reproductive technologies has been driven by the goals of
reducing the incidence of infertility, increasing the number of offspring from genetically elite …

Today, there is growing interest in the potential epigenetic risk related to assisted
reproductive technologies (ART). Much evidence in the literature supports the hypothesis …