Sentences with phrase «normal neural development»

In both of these scenarios, neural stem cells, which are crucial for normal neural development, are lost, leading to microcephaly.

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The loss of breastfeeding not only contributes to increased illness but also damages normal development, especially brain and neural development.

The breast milk also has long - chain polyunsaturated fatty acids which help with normal retinal and neural development.

The latest findings show that genetic defects in the body's ability to manufacture carnitine might be associated with an increased risk of autism because carnitine deficiency interferes with the normal processes by which neural stem cells promote and organize embryonic and fetal brain development.

All of the mice produced normal amounts of SOX2 during development, when the transcription factor plays a critical role in the genesis of embryonic and neural stem cells.

In this case, prenatal brain development is initially normal, but then disrupted by the viral infection of neural progenitors.

They suspected that MSI1 — an RNA binding protein — might be important in this process because it is involved in regulating the pool of neural stem cells that are required for normal brain development.

Secondly, they showed that MSI1 also disrupts the normal development programme of neural stem cells.

Brca1 is required for embryonic development of the mouse cerebral cortex to normal size by preventing apoptosis of early neural progenitors.

«Interestingly,» Dr. Gan said, «we were able to protect the newborn neurons and ensure their normal development with drugs that counteract Aβ - induced abnormalities in neural network activity.

Together, these findings suggest that while high levels of FoxP2 are important for normal development of neural structures, low levels may enable the fine - tuning of these structures during vocal motor exploration [37].