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Olfaction scaffolds the developing human from neonate to adolescent and beyond [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The impact of the olfactory sense is regularly apparent across development. The foetus is bathed in amniotic fluid that conveys the mother’s chemical ecology.
Durand, Karine   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Adherence to prenatal iron-folic acid supplementation in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC): a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesSystematic Reviews, 2018
Background Daily iron-folic acid supplementation reduces anemia and various adverse obstetric outcomes such as preterm delivery, low birthweight, hemorrhage, and perinatal and maternal morbidity and mortality.
Mohammed Akibu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The kynurenine pathway and the brain: challenges, controversies and promises [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Research on the neurobiology of the kynurenine pathway has suffered years of relative obscurity because tryptophan degradation, and its involvement in both physiology and major brain diseases, was viewed almost exclusively through the lens of the well ...
Schwarcz, Robert, Stone, Trevor W.
core   +1 more source

Effect of Nutrition Education Program on the Recommended Weight Gain in during Pregnancy Application of Health Belief Model: A Randomaized Cilinical Trial [PDF]

open access: yesMajallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Qum, 2012
Background and Objectives: Nutrition in pregnancy has an important role in fetus and mother health, and also in the pregnancy outcome. One of the significant changes related to nutrition is weight gain of pregnant women as one of the influencing ...
Mohebi M.   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Factors associated with fetal macrosomia

open access: yesRevista de Saúde Pública, 2019
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical factors, as well as weight gain, in a group of pregnant women, associating them with fetal macrosomia in a public institution in Antioquia, Colombia, from 2010-2017.
Vanessa Agudelo-Espitia   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Can environmental conditions experienced in early life influence future generations? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The consequences of early developmental conditions for performance in later life are now subjected to convergent interest from many different biological sub-disciplines.
Burton, Tim, Metcalfe, Neil B.
core   +1 more source

Evo-devo of human adolescence: beyond disease models of early puberty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Despite substantial heritability in pubertal development, much variation remains to be explained, leaving room for the influence of environmental factors to adjust its phenotypic trajectory in the service of fitness goals.
A Templeton   +69 more
core   +2 more sources

Fetal Programming and Fetal Psychology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The introduction of the ‘fetal programming hypothesis’, first in epidemiology, subsequently in a broad range of disciplines concerned with developmental biology, has generated new interest in phenotypic plasticity, the mechanisms that govern it, and its ...
Ellison, Peter T.
core   +1 more source

Nutritional interventions for the adjunctive treatment of schizophrenia: a brief review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Schizophrenia is a chronic condition that impacts significantly not only on the individual and family, but the disorder also has wider consequences for society in terms of significant costs to the economy.
James Neil   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Nutrition, Epigenetics, and Diseases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Increasing epidemiological evidence suggests that maternal nutrition and environmental exposure early in development play an important role in susceptibility to disease in later life.
Jang, Hyeran, Serra, Carlo
core   +1 more source

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