Ocular teratogens: old acquaintances and new dangers

Bibliographical Society of America Old Faces and New Acquaintances

Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) Remember Old Acquaintances

Many social animals can discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar faces. Orangutans, however, lead a semi-solitary life and spend much of the day alone. As such, they may be less adept at recognizing conspecifics and are a good model for determining how social structure influences the evolution of social cognition such as facial recognition. The present study is the first report of whether o...

Dewey linked data: making connections with old friends and new acquaintances

This paper explores the history, uses cases, and future plans associatedwith availability of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system as linked data.Parts of DDC system have been available as linked data since 2009. Initial efforts in-cluded the DDC Summaries in eleven languages exposed as linked data in dewey.info.In 2010, the content of dewey.info was further extended by ...

Redox implications in adipose tissue (dys)function—A new look at old acquaintances

Obesity is an energy balance disorder associated with dyslipidemia, insulin resistance and diabetes type 2, also summarized with the term metabolic syndrome or syndrome X. Increasing evidence points to "adipocyte dysfunction", rather than fat mass accretion per se, as the key pathophysiological factor for metabolic complications in obesity. The dysfunctional fat tissue in obesity characterizes ...

Teratogens and Their Effects

A congenital malformation is an anatomical or structural abnormality present at birth. Congenital malformations may be caused by genetic factors or environmental insults or a combination of the two that occur during prenatal development. Most common congenital malformations demonstrate multifactorial inheritance with a threshold effect and are determined by a combination of genetic and environm...