Early-life chronic exposure to environmental contaminants, such as bisphenol-A, particulate
matter air pollution, organophosphorus pesticides, and pharmaceutical drugs, among …

The prenatal period, during which a fully formed newborn capable of surviving outside its
mother's body is built from a single cell, is critical for human development. It is also the time …

During the early post-natal period, offspring are vulnerable to environmental insults, such as
nutritional and hormonal changes, which increase risk to develop metabolic diseases later …

Maternal low-protein diet (LP) throughout gestation affects pancreatic β-cell fraction of the
offspring at birth, thus increasing their susceptibility to metabolic dysfunction and type 2 …

The worldwide increase in metabolic diseases has urged the scientific community to
improve our understanding about the mechanisms underlying its cause and effects. A well …

This review analyzes what could be regarded as the “clandestine organs” of the endocrine
system: the gut microbiome, the immune system, and the stress system. The immune system …

A growing body of evidence highlights that several insults during pregnancy impact the
vascular function and immune response of the male and female offspring. Overactivation of …

Acephate has been used extensively as an insecticide in agriculture. Its downstream
sequelae are associated with hyperglycemia, lipid metabolism dysfunction, DNA damage …

Experimental data demonstrated the negative impact of maternal protein malnutrition (MPM)
on rat prostate development, but the mechanism behind the impairment of prostate growth …

It has been shown that maternal stress and malnutrition, or experience of other adverse
events, during the perinatal period may alter susceptibility in the adult offspring in a time-of …