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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 319, Issue 7203) Peer-ReviewedThe period of fetal development can influence insulin resistance in humans and affect risk of type 2 diabetes. An analysis of medical tests done on 125 pairs of identical twins and 178 pairs of fraternal twins of the...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Keith M. Godfrey 1 , 2 , 3 , Guttorm Haugen 1 , 4 , * , Torvid Kiserud 5 , 6 , Hazel M. Inskip 2 , Cyrus Cooper 2 , 3 , Nicholas C. W. Harvey 2 , Sarah R. Crozier 2 , Sian M. Robinson 2 , Lucy Davies 2 , the...
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From:Saudi Journal of Medicine & Medical Sciences (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Cletus. Eze, Christopher. Ohagwu, Livinus. Abonyi, Nicholas. Irurhe, Zachaeus. Ibitoye Context: There is a dearth of sonologists in Nigeria, yet sonographic estimation of actual birth weight (ABW) is...
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From:Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (Vol. 67, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedByline: Sudarshan. Khokhar, Chirakshi. Dhull Persistent fetal vasculature (PFV) is a congenital pathology where remnants of the hyaloid artery system fail to regress.[1] Presentation varies from anterior, posterior,...
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From:Archives of Women's Mental Health (Vol. 22, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe objective of this study is to determine whether maternal antidepressant use during pregnancy influences uteroplacental hemodynamics, thereby affecting fetal growth and gestational age at delivery. The secondary aim...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 128, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSeveral environmental factors, including indoor (1) and outdoor (2) air pollution and exposure to certain chemicals such as organophosphate insecticides, (3) may have negative impacts on fetal growth and infant birth...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedPositional information on the shoulder girdle (the clavicle and scapula) is important for a better understanding of the function of the upper limb in the locomotive system as well as its associated disease pathogenesis....
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground Fetal growth restriction (FGR) followed by rapid weight gain during early life has been suggested to be the initial sequence promoting central adiposity and insulin resistance. However, the link between...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 10, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPrenatal sex hormones can induce abnormalities in the reproductive system and adversely impact on genital development. We investigated whether sex hormones in cord blood influenced the ratio of the second to fourth...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground In sub-Saharan Africa, HIV, syphilis, malaria and anaemia are leading preventable causes of adverse pregnancy outcomes. In Kenya, policy states women should be tested for all four conditions (malaria only...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedObjective Individual differences in the temperamental dimension of effortful control are constitutionally based and have been associated with an adverse prenatal developmental environment, with structural brain...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBackground Cardiovascular malformations can be caused by abnormalities in Gata4 expression during fetal development. In a previous study, we demonstrated that ethanol exposure could lead to histone hyperacetylation...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground Atmospheric pollution is a major public health concern. It can affect placental function and restricts fetal growth. However, scientific knowledge remains too limited to make inferences regarding causal...
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From:Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism (Vol. 46, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedThe majority of women do not meet the recommended levels of exercise during their pregnancies, frequently due to a lack of time. High-intensity interval training offers a potential solution, providing an effective,...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 120, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Fetal programming describes the theory linking environmental conditions during embryonic and fetal development with risk of diseases later in life. Environmental insults in utero may lead to changes in...
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From:Nature Medicine (Vol. 16, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedGene expression in the placenta responds to changes in diet in a way that depends on the sex of the fetus, according to new findings in mice. Jiude Mao et al. fed pregnant mice either very high-fat, low-fat or...
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From:Proceedings of the North Dakota Academy of Science (Vol. 58) Peer-ReviewedPreeclampsia, a form of pregnancy-induced hypertension complicating 6-8% of pregnancies, plays a major role in fetal growth restriction and premature birth as well as infant and maternal morbidity and mortality...
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From:Proceedings of the North Dakota Academy of Science (Vol. 57) Peer-Reviewed
Cocaine decreases neurite adhesion to laminin and increases neurite length in NGF treated PC12 cells
The leisure use of cocaine increased drastically beginning in the 1980's, leading to an increase in the number of infants exposed to cocaine in utero. The incidence has been reported to be between 6 & 20%. Cocaine is... -
From:Journal of Clinical Investigation (Vol. 124, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCentral congenital hypothyroidism (CCH) is more prevalent in children born to women with hyperthyroidism during pregnancy, suggesting a role for thyroid hormone (TH) in the development of central thyroid regula-tion....
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From:Nature (Vol. 478, Issue 7370) Peer-ReviewedPrevious investigations have combined transcriptional and genetic analyses in human cell lines (1-3), but few have applied these techniques to human neural tissue (4-8). To gain a global molecular perspective on the...