ReviewNutrients2019
Impact of Arginine Nutrition and Metabolism during Pregnancy on Offspring Outcomes.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 64 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prenatal Amino Acid Supplementation to Improve Fetal Growth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2020Pooled it
- Maternal dietary citrulline supplementation increases fetal growth and programs pancreatic development in the lambs.Amino acids · 2026Article
- Redox-Driven Precision Medicine for Life-Course Prevention of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Microbiome, Epigenetics, and Nutritional Factors in Shaping Perinatal Pregnancy Outcomes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
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- Arginine Metabolism in Decidual Macrophages During Pregnancy.American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) · 2025Review
- Environmental Nephrotoxicity Across the Life Course: Oxidative Stress Mechanisms and Opportunities for Early Intervention.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Dietary Supplementation with L-Citrulline Between Days 1 and 60 of Gestation Enhances Embryonic Survival in Lactating Beef Cows.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Arginine at the host-pathogen interface.Infection and immunity · 2025Review
- Molecular and Biochemical Mechanisms of Cardiomyopathy Development Following Prenatal Hypoxia-Focus on the NO System.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Optimal amino acid system for early embryo development in sows based on response surface methodology and high-throughput screening cell models.Journal of animal science and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Oxidative Stress in Maternal and Offspring Kidney Disease and Hypertension: A Life-Course Perspective.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Possibility of Using NO Modulators for Pharmacocorrection of Endothelial Dysfunction After Prenatal Hypoxia.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Applications of L-Arginine in Pregnancy and Beyond: An Emerging Pharmacogenomic Approach.Current gene therapy · 2025Review
- MaternalBritish journal of biomedical science · 2025Article
- Productive and metabolomic consequences of arginine supplementation in sows during different gestation periods in two different seasons.Journal of animal science and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Autistic-like behaviors are attenuated by agmatine consumption during pregnancy: Assessment of oxidative stress profile and histopathological changes in the prefrontal cortex and CA1 region of the hippocampus.Iranian journal of basic medical sciences · 2024Article
- Metabolic predictors of COVID-19 mortality and severity: a survival analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Article
- Cardioprotective Activity of Pharmacological Agents Affecting NO Production and Bioavailability in the Early Postnatal Period after Intrauterine Hypoxia in Rats.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- Prophylaxis of decidual CD68Heliyon · 2023Article
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Abstract
By serving as a precursor for the synthesis of nitric oxide, polyamines, and other molecules with biological importance, arginine plays a key role in pregnancy and fetal development. Arginine supplementation is a potential therapy for treating many human diseases. An impaired arginine metabolic pathway during gestation might produce long-term morphological or functional changes in the offspring, namely, developmental programming to increase vulnerability to developing a variety of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in later life. In contrast, reprogramming is a strategy that shifts therapeutic interventions from adulthood to early-life, in order to reverse the programming processes, which might counterbalance the rising epidemic of NCDs. This review presented the role of arginine synthesis and metabolism in pregnancy. We also provided evidence for the links between an impaired arginine metabolic pathway and the pathogenesis of compromised pregnancy and fetal programming. This was followed by reprogramming strategies targeting the arginine metabolic pathway, to prevent the developmental programming of NCDs. Despite emerging evidence from experimental studies showing that targeting the arginine metabolic pathway has promise as a reprogramming strategy in pregnancy to prevent NCDs in the offspring, these results need further clinical application.
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