«Also, we are trying to create conditions during pregnancy in rats that simulate what we believe
occurs in human babies during pregnancy that makes these babies susceptible to apnea by interfering with their serotonin system during development.
Even though there are no reported bad effects to DHA and ARA
supplements in human babies, there are a few factors that will turn many parents off, especially that infant formula with DHA and ARA are about 15 percent more expensive than unsupplemented formula.
During more than two decades at Rockefeller, Peter Marler, a leader in the field, examined the interplay between the inborn program for song in young birds and the influence of social factors, uncovering parallels to speech
acquisition in human babies.
Adiponectin may have reduced the weight of the newborn mice not by reducing fat deposition but by cutting their muscle mass — an undesirable
outcome in human babies.
Finally, we are trying to figure out how best to adapt drugs for
use in human babies that interact with reflex apnea and arousal responses so that they may be studied and used effectively to prevent SIDS and asphyxial deaths in babies.»
«Many of our experiments have replicated previous human findings and tended to confirm in animals what was already known or
suspected in human babies.
Just
as in human babies, cold items seem to sooth those irritated gums, which explains why there are more and more puppy toys on the market that can be frozen.
As a comparison, the 2008 concentrations of OH - PCB in cubs was roughly 90 - 170 times higher than levels that are known to affect thyroid
hormones in human babies.
Mennella says this had already been observed in rabbits, so she decided to test
it in human babies — with carrots.
Is something fundamentally different going on
in human babies?
This finding suggests that
in human babies, factors that shape the microbiome — natural ones such as breastfeeding, or therapeutic, such as antibiotics — may affect the immune cells in the baby's brain and consequently the brain's development.