BACKGROUND Most studies of the associations between pre-natal or post-natal growth and cognitive ability have been based on children with pathologically slow growth measured between two time points only, rather than children with normal growth trajectories estimated from multiple measures of growth. METHODS We investigated the associations of pre-natal and post-natal trajectories in both weig...

The distances that individuals disperse, from their natal site to the site of first breeding and between breeding sites, have important consequences for the dynamics and genetic structure of a population. Nearly all previous studies on dispersal have the problem that, because the study area encompassed only a part of the population, emigration may have been confounded with mortality. As a resul...

Optimal functioning of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is paramount to maximizing fitness in vertebrates. Research in laboratory mammals has suggested that maternally-induced stress can cause significant variation in the responsiveness of an offspring's HPA axis involving both pre- and post-natal developmental mechanisms. However, very little is known regarding effects of maternal ...

Postgraduate student in Agricultural Economics, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville 3209, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. [email protected] 2 Professor of Agricultural Economics, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville 3209, Pietermaritzbu...

Although female common marmosets typically do not breed while housed with their natal families, up to half ovulate at least once while housed with the intact natal family, and a similar proportion conceive if an unrelated adult male is present in the group. In this study, we investigated the behavioral and social correlates of escape from suppression of ovulation by daughters housed in intact n...

Hoosen Coovadia,1,2 Ruth M. Bland3,4* and Tony Walls5** 1Victor Daitz Professor of HIV/AIDS Research, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa 2Director HIV Management, Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit, Durban Branch, University of the Witwatersrand 3Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of kwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 4Division of...

Natal and neonatal teeth represent an uncommon anomaly amongst different racial and ethnic groups. A paediatrician and a paediatric dentist should work as a team since the presence of natal tooth may lead to numerous complications. Also, diagnosis and proper treatment planning of these teeth are recommended because they may result in injury to the tongue, inadequate nutrition intake leading to ...

a female one month old with features supporting a diagnosis of neonatal progeroid syndrome(wrs)  presented to our neonatology section of gb pant children hospital srinagar .she had prenatal and post natal growth failure, generalized lipotrophy, triangular face, psedohydrocephalous, sparse scalp hair and eye brows, prominent scalp veins and greatly widened anterior fontenella.

N Ferreira BSc, MBChB, HDip Orth(SA), FC Orth(SA), MMed(Orth) Tumour, Sepsis and Reconstruction Unit, Department of Orthopaedics, Grey’s Hospital, University of KwaZulu-Natal LC Marais MBChB, FCS Orth(SA), MMed(Ortho) Tumour, Sepsis and Reconstruction Unit, Department of Orthopaedics, Grey’s Hospital, University of KwaZulu-Natal C Aldous BSc, BSc(Hons), MSc, PhD Medical Research Scientist, Scho...