Aliyu Buhari

Maternal Prenatal Stress, Oxidative Stress and Fetal Programming: Integrating Placental, Endocrine, Mitochondrial and Epigenetic Mechanisms and Emerging Therapeutic Strategies

Background: Maternal stress during pregnancy is increasingly recognized as an important environmental determinant of fetal development and lifelong disease susceptibility. Although prenatal stress has been associated with adverse neurodevelopmental, cardiovascular, metabolic and behavioural outcomes, the biological pat...