The pattern of preterm fetal growth faltering, normally seen in man, differs from that observed in animals. This type of fetal growth cannot be considered as an adaptation to facilitate birth but is more likely to be due to rapid evolution and imperfect adaptation to the upright posture. The pattern of posture and physical activity during pregnancy may therefore be an important determinant of f...

INFORMATION (PRACTICAL "MANAGEMENT") Problems with assessing the effect of maternal nutrition and lactation performance are presented in relation to a conceptual mathematical ziggurat. Difficulties, variations and flows are to be found in stages of this sequence of "logic" [e.g., assessment of maternal nutrition, volume and composition of breast milk, nutritional satisfactions of the nursling)....

Successful integration of nutrition interventions into large-scale development programmes from nutrition-relevant sectors, such as agriculture, can address critical underlying determinants of undernutrition and enhance the coverage and effectiveness of on-going nutrition-specific activities. However, evidence on how this can be done is limited. This study examines the feasibility of delivering ...

Zinc is an active element in the body and behaves as a co-factor for many enzymes, so aim of this study was to investigate association between intestinal parasites serum zinc level children Iraq, effect parasitie infections on nutrition, growth, physiology host still poorly understood.

Background Despite the bulk of studies on fatty acid supplementation in maternal diet and confirmed the positive effects on brain and vision, these effects on offspring reproductive organs have not been tested. The aim of the present study was to stereological evaluate the effect of feeding Fish Oil (FO) for mothers on the testis structure of offspring. MaterialsAndMethods Sixty mature female N...

s of Current Literature 612 September-October The Physiology and Pathology of Unusually High Intakes of Nutrients Alexander R. P. Walker Diet and Atherosclerosis. Variations on a Theme. . . . 0. J. Pollak . Some Comments on the American Diet and Household Consumption Data Robert S. Goodhart A Forty-Day -550 Calorie Diet in the Treatment of Obese Outpatients Ezra Sohar . Food Habits and Food Con...

Squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) are an ideal model system for testing hypotheses regarding the evolution of viviparity (live birth) in amniote vertebrates. Viviparity has evolved over 100 times in squamates, resulting in major changes in reproductive physiology. At a minimum, all viviparous squamates exhibit placentae formed by the appositions of maternal and embryonic tissues, which are...

Intrauterine nutrition can program metabolism, creating stable changes in physiology that may have significant health consequences. The mechanism underlying these changes is widely assumed to involve epigenetic changes to the expression of metabolic genes, but evidence supporting this idea is limited. Here we have performed the first study of the epigenomic consequences of exposure to maternal ...

Cardiovascular and haematological changes begin as early as 4 weeks’gestation and are progressive. During pregnancy the plasma volume increases by 45%. This increase is mediated by a direct action of progesterone and oestrogen on the kidney causing the release of renin and thus an activation of the aldosterone renin-angiotensin mechanism. This leads to renal sodium retention and an increase in ...

Rudolf Cardinal, 22/24 Nov 1998 Implantation and the decidual response • Implantation in humans and some other species is invasive – the uterine surface epithelium is breached and the underlying stroma is invaded. (In yet other species, the epithelium remains intact with the fetal and maternal epithelia in close contact.) • The blastocyst makes a signal (unknown) which induces a stromal respons...