A branching process is a mathematical description of the growth of a population for which the individual produces offsprings according to stochastic laws. A typical problem would be of the following form. Considering a population of individuals developing from a single progenitor, the initial individual. The initial individual produces a random number of offsprings, each of them in turn produce...

Abstract* Introduction: Cannabis consumption during pregnancy may affect fetal growth, motor performance, memory and cognitive functions. Methods: Primiparous pregnant Wistar rats were randomly assigned to 4 treatment groups (6 rats per group) consisting of control and sham groups as well as 2 groups treated with Win. Win treated groups received daily s.c. injections of 0.5 or 1 mg/kg WIN ...

Title: Influence of isoflurane exposure in pregnant rats on the learning and memory of offsprings Authors: Wei Huang ([email protected]) Yunxia Dong ([email protected]) Guangyi Zhao ([email protected]) Yuan Wang ([email protected]) Jingjing Jiang ([email protected]) Ping Zhao ([email protected]) Version: 2 Date: 06 Nov 2017 Author’s response to reviews: Dear Editor...

Chicken riboflavin carrier protein (RCP; 219 AA) harbours four linear epitopes, constituted by the peptide residues 3-23, 64-83, 130-147 and 200-219. Antibodies to these sequences bioneutralize maternal RCP and provide protection from pregnancy in rodents. In order to overcome the major histocompatibility complex-dependent variability in immune response often encountered with use of single pept...

OBJECTIVES Smoking opium/cigarette is a global health concern. The aim of this study was to examine learning and memory of rat male offsprings whose mothers had been exposed to either opium or morphine with nicotine during pregnancy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Wistar rats were used for the experiments. In the female rats, opium, morphine and nicotine dependencies were induced by daily injections o...

Children with parental history of diabetes have inherited susceptibility to develop diabetes. It has been shown that patients with Diabetes Mellitus exhibit altered autonomic activity of cardiovascular system. The present study aimed to determine the early changes in cardiac autonomic modulation by measuring the time domain analysis of heart rate variability among healthy subjects with parental...

We investigate the phase diagram of branching annihilating random walks with one and two offsprings in one dimension. A walker can hop to a nearest neighbor site or branch with one or two offsprings with relative ratio. Two walkers annihilate immediately when they meet. In general, this model exhibits a continuous phase transition from an active state into the absorbing state (vacuum) at a fini...

Abstract. The Sharpe-Lotka-Mckendrick-von Foerster one-sex population model and Fredrickson-Hoppensteadt-Staroverov two-sex population one are well known in mathematical biology. But they do not describe dynamics of populations with child care. In recent years some models were proposed to describe dynamics of the wild population with child care. Some of them are based on the notion of the densi...

UNLABELLED The aim of the present study was to evaluate, by heart rate variability (HRV) with 24-hours ECG Holter (HRV), the circadian autonomic activity in offspring of type 2 diabetic subjects and the relation with insulin-resistance. METHODS 50 Caucasian offsprings of type 2 diabetic subjects were divided in two groups: insulin-resistant offsprings (IR) and non insulin-resistant offsprings...