Objectives To assess the feasibility of integrating early psychosocial stimulation into primary care for undernourished children and to determine the effect on children’s development and mothers’ knowledge and practices of childrearing. Design Cluster randomised controlled trial. Setting 18 clinics in three Jamaican parishes. Participants 139 undernourished children aged 9 to 30 months and thei...

The force-frequency characteristics and maximal relaxation rate of the adductor pollicis muscle were measured before and after 48 hours of intravenous loading with glucose (104.5 kJ (25 kcal)/kg/24 h) and potassium (20 mmol(mEq)/500 ml glucose) in eight undernourished patients about to undergo surgery. Both variables of skeletal muscle performance, which were depressed when compared with data f...

Grant, D. B., Hambley, J., Becker, D., and Pimstone, B. L. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 596. Reduced sulphation factor in undernourished children. Serum sulphation factor (SF) activity was estimated in serial samples from 5 children with protein-calorie malnutrition. Serum growth hormone (HGH), albumin, and transferrin were also measured. SF activity was reduced at the time of ...

We analyze the effect of chronic undernourishment on extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle maturation in the rat. Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) and alkaline ATPase histoenzymatic techniques were used to determine the relative proportion of different fiber types (oxidative/glycolytic and type I, IIa/IId, or IIb, respectively) and their cross-sectional area in control and undernourished EDL muscles...

Since 1980, the number of undernourished people in eastern and southern Africa has more than doubled. Rural development stalled and rural poverty expanded during the 1990s. Population growth remains very high, and declining per-capita agricultural capacity retards progress toward Millennium Development goals. Analyses of in situ station data and satellite observations of precipitation have iden...

In order to determine possible functional and morphometrical alterations produced by perinatal undernourishment on peripheral nerves, sensory sural nerves from control and undernourished rats of 30 and 90 postnatal days of age were dissected and divided in two segments, one for recording the compound action potential (CAP) and the other for histological examination. Nerves from undernourished a...

The objective of the present study was to determine the effect of protein malnutrition on the glycoprotein content of bone marrow extracellular matrix (ECM). Two-month-old male Swiss mice were submitted to protein malnutrition with a low-protein diet containing 4% casein as compared to 20% casein in the control diet. When the experimental group had attained a 20% loss of their original body wei...