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- Title
The effect of nutrition and environment on the preimplantation embryo.
- Authors
Eckert, Judith J; Fleming, Tom P
- Abstract
The article discloses the impact of diet and environment on the preimplantation embryo. The embryo can adapt and survive through several environmental factors like cell lineage allocation, mitochondrial function, and metabolism. The preimplanation embryo can succumb to health effects including thyroid dysfunction, obesity risk, and decline in insulin sensity if it is conceived as a child through in vitro fertilisation or due to animal-based diet of pregnant its pregnant mother.
- Subjects
METABOLISM; THYROID diseases; HUMAN in vitro fertilization; MATERNAL health; NUTRITION in pregnancy
- Publication
Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, 2011, Vol 13, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
1467-2561
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1576/toag.13.1.43.27640