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most citedThe role of the vagus nerve during fetal development and its relationship with the environment

109 citations · 406 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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q-bio.TO2021★ 109 cited

The role of the vagus nerve during fetal development and its relationship with the environment

Francesco Cerritelli, Martin G. Frasch, Marta C. Antonelli +4

The autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulatory capacity begins before birth as the sympathetic and parasympathetic activity contributes significantly to the fetus' development. Seve…

q-bio.QM2021★ 15 cited

Prenatal stress perturbs fetal iron homeostasis in a sex-specific manner

Peter Zimmermann, Marta C. Antonelli, Ritika Sharma +7

What is the influence of chronic maternal prenatal stress (PS) on fetal iron homeostasis? In a prospective case-control study in 164 pregnant women, we show that cord blood transfe…

q-bio.QM2020★ 47 cited

Detection of Maternal and Fetal Stress from the Electrocardiogram with Self-Supervised Representation Learning

Pritam Sarkar, Silvia Lobmaier, Bibiana Fabre +5

In the pregnant mother and her fetus, chronic prenatal stress results in entrainment of the fetal heartbeat by the maternal heartbeat, quantified by the fetal stress index (FSI). D…

q-bio.QM2020★ 22 cited

Early Biomarkers and Intervention Programs for the Infant Exposed to Prenatal Stress

Marta C. Antonelli, Martin G. Frasch, Mercedes Rumi +4

Functional development of affective and reward circuits, cognition and response inhibition later in life exhibits vulnerability periods during gestation and early childhood. Extens…

q-bio.GN2019★ 21 cited

Autism spectrum disorder: a neuro-immunometabolic hypothesis of the developmental origins

Martin G. Frasch, Byung-Jun Yoon, Dario-Lucas Helbing +3

Fetal neuroinflammation and prenatal stress (PS) may contribute to lifelong neurological disabilities. Astrocytes and microglia, among the brain's non-neuronal glia cell population…

q-bio.QM2019★ 49 cited

Fetus: the radar of maternal stress, a cohort study

Silvia M. Lobmaier, Alexander Mueller, Camilla Zelgert +10

Objective: We hypothesized that prenatal stress (PS) exerts lasting impact on fetal heart rate (fHR). We sought to validate the presence of such PS signature in fHR by measuring co…