Table of Contents

Nutritional programming effects on development of metabolic disorders in later life.- Effects of Prenatal Nutrition and the Role of the Placenta in Health and Disease.- Developmental Origins of Stress and Psychiatric Disorders.- Proteomic Studies of Psychiatric Disorders.- Developmental Origins of Breast Cancer: A Paternal Perspective.- Point-of-care Testing and Personalized Medicine for Metabolic Disorders.- Pregnancy and Lactation a Window of Opportunity to Improve Individual Health.- Utility of Small Animal Models of Developmental Programming.- Generation of Maternal Obesity Models in Studies of Developmental Programming in Rodents.- Generation of the Maternal Low Protein Rat Model for Studies of Metabolic Disorders.- Investigation of Paternal Programming of Breast Cancer Risk in Female Offspring in Rodent Models.- Studies of Isolated Peripheral Blood Cells as a Model of Immune Dysfunction.- Studies of a Neuronal Cell Line as a Model of Psychiatric Disorders.- Assessment of Placental Transport Function in Studies of Disease Programming.- Assessment of Fatty Liver in Models of Disease Programming.- Capillary Blood Sampling from the Finger.- Physical Activity Assessment in Clinical Studies of Substance use Disorder.- Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing.- Cardiovascular Assessment in Human Research.- Nutritional Programming Effects on the Immune System.- Small RNA Sequencing - A Technique for miRNA Profiling.- Pulse-chase Biosynthetic Radiolabelling of Pancreatic Islets to Measure Beta Cell Function.- Rapid and Easy Protocol for Quantification of Next Generation Sequencing Libraries.- Telomere length analysis - A Tool for Dissecting Ageing Mechanisms in Developmental Programming.- Qualitative and quantitative NMR Approaches in Blood Serum Lipidomics.- In vivo Electrical Stimulation for the Assessment of Skeletal Muscle Contractile Function in Murine Models.- Experimental Model of Skeletal Muscle Laceration in Rats.- Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of Early Nutritional Modifications: A Beginner’s Guide to Behavioural Analysis.- Hyperlocomotion Test for Assessing Behavioural Disorders.- 2D-DIGE Analysis of Eye Lens Proteins as a Measure of Cataract Formation.- Mass Spectrometry Profiling of Pituitary Glands.- Multiplex Immunoassay Profiling of Hormones Involved in Metabolic Regulation.- Time Resolved Fluorescence Assays for Quantification of Insulin Precursors in Plasma and Serum.- Identification of Neural Stem Cell Biomarkers by Isobaric Tagging for Relative and Absolute Quantitation (iTRAQ) Mass Spectrometry.- Lab-on-a-chip Device for Rapid Measurement of Vitamin D Levels.- Kidney Smartphone Diagnostics.- A User-friendly App for Blood Coagulation Disorders.- Hormonal Smartphone Diagnostics.