Objective
Prenatal nutrition is known to affect the health and development of the newborn child. A foetus that suffers intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) is more likely to suffer from cardiac or diabetic problems in later life, an effect known as "metabolic programming". Particular fatty acids are required for development but the optimum composition of dietary lipids remains controversial. The project will compare normal and IUGR pregnancies in terms of marten, neonatal and placenta fatty acid profiles. Placental transfer of fatty acids in vivo and the functional ability of trophoblasts in vitro will be measured. The effects of dietary fats, on maternal endocrine status, oxidative stress, milk composition, placental function and on the development of IUGR and normal foetuses in uteri (or ex uteri in the case of the preteen infants fed intravenously) will be assessed. Humans studies will be complemented with appropriate rat and pig animal-models. The results will be used to formulate improved dietary recommendations for mothers throughout pregnancy and lactation.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences basic medicine physiology pathophysiology
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules lipids
- medical and health sciences health sciences nutrition
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine obstetrics childbirth
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SW7 2AZ LONDON
United Kingdom
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