Perinatal Oxidative Stress: Shaping Offspring Phenotype
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Outcomes of Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 29 October 2024 | Viewed by 33
Special Issue Editors
2. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Interests: brain development; fetal growth restriction; neuroprotection; preterm birth; antioxidant treatments
2. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
Interests: cardiovascular development; fetal growth restriction; vasculature; endothelial function; cardiovascular physiology; nitric oxide
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We invite submissions for this Special Issue entitled “Perinatal Oxidative Stress: Shaping Offspring Phenotype”. This important topic acknowledges that normal pregnancy presents a state of increased maternal oxidative stress, which is further pathologically heightened when the pregnancy or birth is complicated by impaired placentation, hypoxia ischemia, or intrauterine infection. Such oxidative stress is characterised by an upregulation in the production of oxidative or nitrative free radicals and a decrease in the availability of antioxidant species, thereby creating a state of maternal, placental, and foetal oxidative imbalance. There has recently been a good deal of interest in the potential use of antioxidant therapies in the perinatal period to combat complications of pregnancy and birth, in an effort to protect multiple organ systems in the foetus and neonate against oxidative damage. This Special Issue invites submissions that work to characterise the contributions of foetal and/or neonatal oxidative stress to altered organ development. In addition, we invite papers that address antioxidant treatments in the perinatal period. We look forward to a set of high impact papers that add novel insight into the ways that perinatal oxidative stress shape offspring phenotype and whether targeted antioxidant treatments can improve organ development and function.
Prof. Suzanne Miller
Dr. Beth J. Allison
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oxidative stress
- maternal
- placenta
- fetal/fetus
- utero-placental
- antioxidant treatment
- cardiovascular
- brain
