Determinants of intrauterine growth

Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue

1994 • 12,975 citations

Fetal nutrition and cardiovascular disease in adult life

1993 • 2,688 citations

INTRAUTERINE GROWTH AS ESTIMATED FROM LIVEBORN BIRTH-WEIGHT DATA AT 24 TO 42 WEEKS OF GESTATION

1963 • 1,902 citations

Nonadipose tissue production of leptin: Leptin as a novel placenta-derived hormone in humans

1997 • 1,299 citations

Genomic imprinting in mammalian development: a parental tug-of-war

1991 • 1,178 citations

Fetal and infant origins of adult disease

2001 • 1,050 citations

Low and Very Low Birth Weight in Infants Conceived with Use of Assisted Reproductive Technology

2002 • 1,004 citations

THE ASSESSMENT OF FETAL GROWTH

1968 • 762 citations

Sexual Dimorphism in Plasma Leptin Concentration

1997 • 497 citations

The Sins of the Fathers and Mothers

1999 • 489 citations

Carbohydrate metabolism during pregnancy in control subjects and women with gestational diabetes

1993 • 478 citations

The Metabolic Significance of Leptin in Humans: Gender-Based Differences in Relationship to Adiposity, Insulin Sensitivity, and Energy Expenditure*

1997 • 475 citations

Fetal and Neonatal Physiology

1998 • 468 citations

Fetal and Infant Origins of Adult Disease.

1993 • 464 citations

New birthweight and head circumference centiles for gestational ages 24 to 42 weeks

1987 • 443 citations

Genomic Imprinting: Implications for Human Disease

1999 • 363 citations

Insulin-like growth factors and their binding proteins in the term and preterm human fetus and neonate with normal and extremes of intrauterine growth.

1995 • 361 citations

Low consumption of seafood in early pregnancy as a risk factor for preterm delivery: prospective cohort study

2002 • 353 citations

Rare congenital disorders, imprinted genes, and assisted reproductive technology

2003 • 352 citations

Placental Regulation of Fatty Acid Delivery and its Effect on Fetal Growth—A Review

2002 • 349 citations

Diagnostic Value of Blood Sampling in Fetuses with Growth Retardation

1993 • 340 citations

Levels of Leptin in Maternal Serum, Amniotic Fluid, and Arterial and Venous Cord Blood: Relation to Neonatal and Placental Weight

1997 • 338 citations

ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS AND FETAL BRAIN GROWTH

1976 • 319 citations

The expression of insulin-like growth factor (IGF) and IGF-binding protein (IGFBP) genes in the human placenta and membranes: evidence for IGF-IGFBP interactions at the feto-maternal interface.

1996 • 319 citations

CURRENT TOPIC: Glucose Transporters in the Human Placenta

2000 • 314 citations

Implications of Dietary Fatty Acids During Pregnancy on Placental, Fetal and Postnatal Development—A Review

2002 • 298 citations

Placental-fetal Interrelationship in IUGR Fetuses—A Review

2002 • 287 citations

The imprinted gene and parent-of-origin effect database

2001 • 256 citations

Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Formation in Neonates: Effect of Gestational Age and Intrauterine Growth

2000 • 247 citations

Birth weight: nature or nurture?

1995 • 239 citations

Amino Acid Transporters in the Human Placenta

2001 • 237 citations

WEIGHT RELATIONSHIPS IN PREGNANCY

1968 • 211 citations

Birth weight from pregnancies dated by ultrasonography in a multicultural British population.

1993 • 201 citations

Epigenetic risks related to assisted reproductive technologies: Risk analysis and epigenetic inheritance

2002 • 198 citations

Ontogenesis of somatomedin and insulin receptors in the human fetus.

1983 • 197 citations

Leptin Production and Release in the Duallyin VitroPerfused Human Placenta¹

2000 • 190 citations

Neonatal Cord Blood Leptin: Its Relationship to Birth Weight, Body Mass Index, Maternal Diabetes, and Steroids

1998 • 185 citations

Maternal concentrations and fetal-maternal concentration differences of plasma amino acids in normal and intrauterine growth-restricted pregnancies

1996 • 175 citations

The Impact of Gestational Age and Fetal Growth on the Maternal-Fetal Glucose Concentration Difference

1996 • 175 citations

Estimation of Arachidonic Acid Synthesis in Full Term Neonates Using Natural Variation of 13C Content

1995 • 174 citations

Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Expression of Messenger RNA for Insulin-Like Growth Factors and their Binding Proteins in the Placenta of Man and Laboratory Animals

2000 • 171 citations

Fetal Plasma Leptin Concentrations: Relationship with Different Intrauterine Growth Patterns from 19 Weeks to Term

2000 • 166 citations

Altered placental development and intrauterine growth restriction in IGF binding protein-1 transgenic mice

2002 • 165 citations

Leptin Concentration in Cord Blood Correlates with Intrauterine Growth¹

1997 • 164 citations

Placental Transport and Metabolism of Amino Acids

2001 • 163 citations

Compensatory placental growth after restricted maternal nutrition in early pregnancy

1998 • 161 citations

Textbook of Perinatal Medicine

2006 • 157 citations

Placental Growth Hormone (GH), GH-Binding Protein, and Insulin-Like Growth Factor Axis in Normal, Growth-Retarded, and Diabetic Pregnancies: Correlations with Fetal Growth*

2000 • 155 citations

Essential Fatty Acids Interconversion in the Human Fetal Liver

1985 • 152 citations

The Dutch famine birth cohort study: design, validation of exposure, and selected characteristics of subjects after 43 years follow‐up

1993 • 146 citations

Factors affecting fetal growth and body composition

1995 • 139 citations

Differential growth of fetal tissues during the second half of pregnancy

1997 • 134 citations

Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in the mammalian brain

1975 • 130 citations

The intrauterine origins of cardiovascular disease

1993 • 130 citations

Altered placental development and intrauterine growth restriction in IGF binding protein-1 transgenic mice

2002 • 129 citations

Physiological role of human placental growth hormone

1998 • 129 citations

Intrauterine Growth and its Relationship to Size and Shape at Birth

2002 • 128 citations

Leptin Production and Release in the Dually in VitroPerfused Human Placenta

2000 • 127 citations

Insulin-like growth factors (IGF) 1 and 2 in human foetal plasma and relationship to gestational age and foetal size during midpregnancy

1985 • 126 citations

Metabolic and circulatory studies of fetal lamb at midgestation

1986 • 124 citations

Intrauterine growth and adipose tissue development

1981 • 124 citations

Brain Docosahexaenoate Accretion in Fetal Baboons: Bioequivalence of Dietary α-Linolenic and Docosahexaenoic Acids

1997 • 118 citations

The Role of Imprinted Genes in Fetal Growth

2002 • 112 citations

Amino Acid Interconversions in the Fetal-Placental Unit: The Animal Model and Human Studies In Vivo

2001 • 109 citations

Micronutrients in fetal growth and development

1999 • 109 citations

Certain dates may not provide a reliable estimate of gestational age

1991 • 106 citations

Epigenetic risks related to assisted reproductive technologies: Short- and long-term consequences for the health of children conceived through assisted reproduction technology: more reason for caution?

2002 • 103 citations

Comparative Biology of the IGF System in Endometrium, Decidua, and Placenta, and Clinical Implications for Foetal Growth and Implantation Disorders

2003 • 103 citations

<i>Cis</i>- and <i>Trans</i>-Isomeric Fatty Acids in Plasma Lipids of Newborn Infants and Their Mothers

1990 • 96 citations

Fitting growth curves to head and abdomen measurements of the fetus: A multicentric study

1987 • 94 citations

The role of insulin-like growth factor-I and insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1 in the control of human fetal growth

1992 • 91 citations

Metabolism of 13C-Labeled Linoleic Acid in Newborn Infants During the First Week of Life

1999 • 88 citations

Lipid peroxidation and antioxidant status is affected by different vitamin E levels when feeding fish oil

1994 • 86 citations

Effect of Iron Deficiency on Placental Cytokine Expression and Fetal Growth in the Pregnant Rat1

2002 • 84 citations

Impact of Maternal Fuels and Nutritional State on Fetal Growth

1991 • 83 citations

Effect of maternal metabolism on fetal growth and body composition.

1998 • 79 citations

Timing of prenatal starvation in women and birth weight in their first and second born offspring: the Dutch famine birth cohort study

1995 • 78 citations

Fetal Growth in Late Gestation — A Constrained Pattern of Growth

1990 • 76 citations

Fetal and Neonatal Physiology

1994 • 71 citations

The transfer of free fatty acids across the human placenta

1985 • 68 citations

Partition of maternal nutrients to the placenta and fetus in the sheep

1983 • 50 citations

Oxidative stability of low density lipoproteins and vitamin E levels increase in maternal blood during normal pregnancy

2001 • 38 citations

Lipogenesis in developing human adipose tissue

1978 • 34 citations

Perinatal Cerebrovascular Disease in the Neonate: Parenchymal Ischemic Lesions in Term and Preterm Infants

1992 • 30 citations

Chromatographic characterization of insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins in human pregnancy serum

1992 • 24 citations

Midgestation cord sampling: What have we learned

1992 • 22 citations

Vitamin A Deficiency During Rat Pregnancy Alters Placental TNF‐α Signalling and Apoptosis

2002 • 19 citations

LEPTIN CONCENTRATION IN CORD BLOOD CORRELATES WITH INTRAUTERINE GROWTH.† 367

1997 • 16 citations

Accuracy of an average ultrasonic laboratory in measurements of fetal biparietal diameter, head circumference and abdominal circumference

1986 • 15 citations