It is the primary activity of the
brain during early development and plays an extremely important role in the mental and physical growth of little ones.
«Previous studies have linked intake of high fructose corn syrup sweetened beverages with asthma in school children, but there is little information about
when during early development exposure to fructose might influence later health,» said Sheryl L. Rifas - Shiman, MPH, a study lead author and senior research associate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.
For example, both adult males and females exposed to
lead during early development had fewer aerobes and significantly more anaerobes, suggesting a changing microenvironment of the gut.
This suggests that congruence between prenatal and postnatal environments may be able to prepare the fetus for postnatal life and hence confer an adaptive advantage for critical survival
functions during early development.
«Because U.S. intakes are low and because DHA is highly concentrated in the brain where it increases dramatically in the last trimester of pregnancy and the first two years of life, I have had a long interest in whether more of this nutrient is needed for optimal
health during early development.
Scientists from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, US, have revealed a communication system between the knee joint and developing bones in mice, which controls bone
growth during early development and after injury.
Working with an animal model, the researchers found that a type of cell present in the brain's primary processing
area during early development, long thought to form structural scaffolding with no role in transmitting sensory information, may conduct such signals after all.
Newborns, however, demonstrated no such preference, implying that exposure to people from various
races during early development may shape the way in which adults perceive ethnic differences.
Their results suggest that maternal care of pups, including mothers» ability to adjust to the needs of their
young during early development, was impaired after BPS exposure «with differing effects based on dose, postpartum period and generational timing of exposure.»
Therefore the researchers used a variety of genetic tools in fruit flies to remove the enzyme that places H3K27me3 marks and discovered that embryos lacking
H3K27me3 during early development could not develop to the end of embryogenesis.
The formation of excitatory and inhibitory synapses between
neurons during early development gives rise to the neuronal networks that enable sensory and cognitive functions in humans.
In a study released today, environmental scientists led by Laura Vandenberg at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they observed changes in mammary gland development of female mice
exposed during early development to the chemicals used in unconventional oil and gas (UOG) extraction — including fracking — at levels environmentally relevant to humans.
A study carried out by the Laboratoire Neurobiologie des Interactions Cellulaires et Neurophysiopathologie (CNRS / Aix - Marseille Université), in collaboration with clinicians from Marseilles Public Hospitals (AP - HM) and scientists from the Salk Institute in San Diego (US), has revealed a new gene that plays a crucial
role during early development in humans and whose under - expression may induce certain autistic traits.
«We know from animal models that there are critical
periods during early development when cells are rapidly dividing and forming the circuitry through which cells will communicate with each other to form various tissues of the body,» said Retha Newbold, a reproductive biologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina.
While most neurons are
fashioned during early development, there are a handful of well - studied brain areas in which new neurons are continuously produced even in adulthood.
Neurology Central, an online publication based in the United Kingdom, will sponsor a live webinar with MDI Biological Laboratory scientist James A. Coffman, Ph.D., on the subject of how chronic stress experienced
during early development epigenetically programs adult disease risk.
To gain insight into these questions, we combine mathematical modelling, biophysics and quantitative measurements of
spindles during the early development of the zebrafish Danio rerio and in Xenopus laevis egg extract.
In addition to their immune functions, microglia are also involved in the elimination of unnecessary neurons and neuronal
branches during early development of the brain.
In female mammals, one of the two X chromosomes is transcriptionally
silenced during early development to compensate for the double «dose» of X-linked gene products in females -LSB-...]
Summary of your Project 2 (with Jean - Yves Roignant and Rene Ketting): Gene
expression during early development from fruit fly to human depends almost exclusively on posttranscriptional mechanisms.
«We observed that when we place a gene in a compartment at the edge of the array, it creates a diminishing protein concentration gradient; other compartments within the array can sense and respond to this gradient — similar to how morphogen concentration gradients diffuse through the cells and tissues of an
embryo during early development.
In contrast to evidence that the amygdala stimulates stress responses in adults, researchers at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University have found that the amygdala has an inhibitory effect on stress
hormones during the early development of nonhuman primates.
Incidence and recurrence of Neural Tube Defects (serious birth defects of the spinal cord and the brain which
arise during the early development of the embryo, most common being spina bifida)
«The study showed that genistein caused alterations to the
ovaries during early development, which is partly responsible for the reproductive problems found in adult mice.»
They were suffering from the debilitating symptoms of spina bifida, an inherited condition involving incomplete closure of the spinal
column during early development.
Hans Hofmann was another influential figure during that era, and he served as a mentor, artist and
teacher during the early development and progress of abstract expressionism in the US.