Pregnancy Leads to Lasting Changes in Foot Structure

Lasting Impression: Interaction With Embodied Puppet Leads to Changes in the Way People Draw Sketches

We have built an embodied puppet interface to explore the control and cognitive relations players establish with their virtual avatars. We are particularly interested in how these relations could be extended and what lasting effects occur. Here we report the results of a study that revealed that altering the mapping between the embodied puppet and virtual avatar led to changes in the way people...

ingestion of silver nanoparticles leads to changes in blood parameters

objective(s): the silver nanoparticles, being very small size, can permeate the cellular membrane and interfere in the cell's natural process. in the present study, the effects of time, the dosage of these particles and their use on blood molecules and hormones, the volume of drinking water, and the urine parameters were analyzed.materials and methods: thirty six rats of the wistar race, as sub...

Hypoxia during pregnancy in rats leads to early morphological changes of atherosclerosis in adult offspring.

Exposure to an adverse intrauterine environment increases the risk of cardiovascular disease later in adult life. However, the time course relationship between prenatal hypoxia and the onset of atherosclerosis in offspring remains unknown. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of reduced fetal oxygen supply on early development of atherogenesis in the adult offspring and further ass...

Long-lasting scrofuloderma of hands and foot.

ErbB4 deletion leads to changes in lung function and structure similar to bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

Neuregulin is an important growth factor in fetal surfactant synthesis, and downregulation of its receptor, ErbB4, impairs fetal surfactant synthesis. We hypothesized that pulmonary ErbB4 deletion will affect the developing lung leading to an abnormal postnatal lung function. ErbB4-deleted lungs of 11- to 14-wk-old adult HER4heart mice, rescued from their lethal cardiac defects, were studied fo...