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Reason behind, why ought to be happy during pregnancy!

Posted on: 30/Jan/2015 11:48:57 AM

A new study says, ‘’Stress hormones of the mother can upset foetal development’’.

To experiment whether high stress intensities in pregnant mice had a sway on their young ones, pregnant mice acquired the innate glucocorticoid corticosterone at several stages during pregnancy.

Researchers established that elevated levels of glucocorticoid stress hormones in pregnant mice affected the mother to consume more but slashed down the ability of the placenta for passage of glucose to her foetus.

The results of this experiment in the mice illustrate that maternal glucocorticoids control foetal nutrition. Higher glucocorticoid hormone levels in the mother can cut down the glucose transport athwart the placenta and bring in a diminution in foetal weight, explained chief author of this study.

Glucocorticoid levels in pregnant women may regulate the certain mishmash of nutrients gotten by the foetus and persuade the long-term metabolic wellbeing of their children as an outcome.

This might have associations for women stressed in pregnancy or spoiled clinically with glucocorticoids, if the appliances are alike in humans, he supplemented.

The research confirmed that under stress, specific genes in the placenta were altered. One of the chief genes shown to be changed in the placenta by motherly stress hormones was termed ‘Redd1’. This gene is agreed to signal handiness of other stuffs such as oxygen, and to interrelate with intracellular trails adjusting growth and nutrient endorsement in other tissues of the body.

Future researches may confirm this molecule is vital in the placenta, in connecting environmental signals to the nourishment of the foetus, research concluded. This interesting study has been printed in ‘The Journal of Physiology’.


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