Revista de la Facultad de Medicina

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McMillen IC, Edwards LJ, Duffield J, Muhlhausler BS. Early origins of obesity: programming the appetite regulatory system. J Physiol. 2005; 565:9-17.

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MCmillen IC, Robinson JS. Developmental origins of the metabolic syndrome: prediction, plasticity, and programming. Physiol Rev. 2005; 85:571-633.

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McMillen IC, Edwards LJ, Duffield J, Muhlhausler BS. Regulation of leptin synthesis and secretion before birth: implications for the early programming of adult obesity. Reproduction. 2006; 131:415-427.

Jiménez-Chillaron JC, Patti ME. To catch up or not to catch up: is this the question? Lessons from animal models. Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes. 2007: 14:23-29.

Hales CN, Ozanne DE. The dangerous road of catch-up growth. J. Physiol. 2003; 547:5-10.

Charalambous M, Teixeira da Rocha S, Ferguson-Smith AC. Genomic imprinting, growth control and the allocation of nutritional resources: consequences for postnatal life. Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes. 2007; 14:3-12.

Holness MJ, Sugden MC. Epigenetic regulation of metabolism in children born small for gestational age. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2006; 9:482-488.

Wu Q, Suzuki. Parental obesity and overweight affect the body-fat accumulation in the offspring: the possible effect of a high-fat diet through epigenetic inheritance. Obesity reviews. 2006; 7:201-208.

Xanthakos SA, Inge TH. Nutritional consequences of bariatric surgery. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2006; 9:489-496.

Padwal RS, Majumdar SR. Drug treatments for obesity: orlistat, sibutramine, and rimonabant. Lancet. 2007; 369:71-77.