MeSH headings : Animals; Animals, Newborn; Body Weight / drug effects; Cadmium / adverse effects; Disease Models, Animal; Female; Gene Expression Profiling / methods; Gene Expression Regulation / drug effects; Gene Regulatory Networks / drug effects; Heart / anatomy & histology; Heart / drug effects; Hypotension / chemically induced; Hypotension / genetics; Maternal Exposure / adverse effects; Metabolic Networks and Pathways / drug effects; Mice; Organ Size / drug effects; Pregnancy; Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects / chemically induced; Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects / genetics; Sequence Analysis, RNA

TL;DR: It is proposed that a maternal Cd exposure-induced iron deficiency leads to altered cellular metabolic pathways and hypoxic conditions during fetal development; this stress may contribute to increased heart weight at birth and the programming of susceptibility to hypertension in adulthood. (via Semantic Scholar)