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Leading pediatrician addresses the future of children's health
Date:4/1/2008

can now know the fetal origins of many adult diseases, such as diabetes and obesity, and how lifestyles -- in terms of food intake and environmental factors, may contribute or help prevent certain diseases, explains Dr. Gitlin.

Dr. Gitlin uses zebra fish to illustrate this theory with a chemical genetic screen to identify small molecules and note their influence on nutrient metabolism. When we think about controlling our environment, the one thing we can control is nutrition. So the question we are trying to answer is Can we take a simple, genetically tractable organism thats similar in development to humans and manipulate the nutrition and understand by that manipulation what kind of metabolic outcome we get? Findings from this research may ultimately reveal the genetic factors that suggest how nutrients are metabolized and how this may contribute to birth defects and long-term metabolic abnormalities.


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