Rita van Bree

TL;DR: Insulin, insulin- like growth factors I and II and insulin are all related to fetal growth and weight gain, and insulin-like growth factor-I correlates best with birth weight.

TL;DR: Maternal semistarvation and diabetes have dissimilar effects on peripheral insulin sensitivity of the adult female offspring, and other mechanisms must be identified to explain impaired glucose uptake by skeletal muscles in the offspring of diabetic rats.

TL;DR: DIO during pregnancy results in hyperadiposity and reduced glucose tolerance only in their neonatal/weanling but not postpubertal offspring, and future research should disclose whether these early-life effects are reactivated in conditions of heightened insulin resistance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors determined whether cardiac troponin T (cTnT) and natriuretic peptides can be isolated from the amniotic fluid (AF) of pregnancies complicated by twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) and whether they correlate with fetal echocardiographic findings and recipient survival.

TL;DR: Low-dose SZ is not a good model for GDM because of the high variability in glucose levels, and the inconsistent effect on fetal insulin concentrations.