Sentences with phrase «across placental»

Microfilariae may also be transmitted across the placental barrier to unborn puppies if the mother dog is infected with heartworm.

In fact, some research shows that a whopping 50 % of all newborns are deficient in vitamin K, mostly due to maternal vitamin K deficiencies.3 While vitamin K travels poorly across the placental barrier and is mostly lacking in breast milk, studies have found that maternal supplementation with vitamin K can help improve their newborn's vitamin K status.4, 5

Immediately after birth, the direct transfer of the mother's own nutrition across the placental wall to her baby is no longer an option.

They've also researched exactly which cellular and molecular mechanisms Zika uses to get across the placental barrier and then to infect fetal cells.

I was also looking for measures of prevention when I came across placental encapsulation.

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We plan on using it to study other large - scale evolutionary patterns such as how early placental mammals dispersed across the continents via land bridges that no longer exist today.»

«Overall, the most important finding is that we identified nanchangmycin as a potent inhibitor of Zika virus entry across all cell types tested, including endothelial and placental cells, which are relevant to how Zika may enter the fetus,» Cherry said.

Moreover, such large trees are very useful for future studies of large - scale evolutionary patterns, such as how early placental mammals dispersed across the continents via land bridges that no longer exist today.»