Not exact matches
The article also concludes: «while it is sensible to advise women to abstain from all drugs during pregnancy, the weight of current scientific evidence
suggests that marijuana does not directly harm the
human fetus.»
An inflammatory protein that triggers a pregnant mouse's immune response to an infection or other disease appears to cause brain injury in her
fetus, but not the premature birth that was long believed to be linked with such neurologic damage in both rodents and
humans, new Johns Hopkins - led research
suggests.
This research was in mice, so it can't directly translate to
humans, but it does
suggest that a vaccine against Zika could spur protective antibodies that not only prevent people from getting the virus, but could protect a pregnant woman's
fetus.
It has been
suggested, but not substantiated, that testosterone might slow left hemisphere development in the male
fetus and might account for left - handedness in
humans.
Both animal and
human studies
suggest that stress - related maternal cortisol increases the
fetus's exposure of cortisol and subsequently affect the development of the
fetus's immune domains [26,46].