Abstract
Understanding the factors and variables that influence human health is an important area of research in biological anthropology. Research on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) has provided a valuable framework for exploring the early life environment and its impact on future adult health and physiology. According to the lactocrine hypothesis, lactation allows for additional communication and developmental programming from the maternal body to the infant after birth through signals in the milk. Relaxin, a peptide hormone, has been the focus of recent research on postnatal developmental programming in animal models, and was identified as a central mediator of postnatal growth by the lactocrine hypothesis. Only a few studies have explored relaxin in human milk, and only one has explored its role in postnatal growth and development of infants. We investigated relaxin-1 and relaxin-2 in human milk in order to better understand their roles in postnatal development through three specific aims using samples of milk previously collected from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey in 2007-08.
Committee Chair
Elizabeth Quinn
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Author's Department
Anthropology
Document Type
Dissertation
Date of Award
9-13-2023
Language
English (en)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7936/nffv-dz93
Recommended Citation
Schneider, Alaina, "An Investigation of Human Relaxin-1 and Relaxin-2 Concentrations in Human Milk Samples from Women from Cebu, Philippines" (2023). Arts & Sciences Theses and Dissertations. 3162.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.7936/nffv-dz93