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aleriana officinalis administration on pregnant rats and postnatal development of the female offspring
... The CNS is protected from entry of potential toxins through the blood-brain barrier, which is not fully developed at birth. For this reason, a given agent can be selectively toxic in that it may have no effect on the ...
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Food restriction during pregnancy and female offspring fertility: adverse effects of reprogrammed reproductive lifespan
... of common diseases may be due to the environment that the fetus directly senses via the mother [2, 5 – 8]. In par- ticular, maternal food restriction (MFR) has been associ- ated with coronary heart disease and increased ...
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DEVELOPMENTAL AND MATERNAL TOXICITY IN PROGENY OF RAT MOTHERS EXPOSED TO METHYL MERCURY DURING GESTATION
... www.wjpls.org 191 Effects of MeHg on reproduction have been studied in nonhuman primates, showing diminished conception rates and increased incidences of abortions and stillbirths in Macaques treated for 4 months at ...
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Maternal investment in Kaimanawa horses : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology at Massey University
... Studies in highly dimorphic species have found that dominant mothers produce more sons or invest more in sons (eg. Clutton-Brock et al. 1 98 1 , 1 984, 1 986, Cassinello 1 996, BeruM et al. 1 996), but did not find that ...
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Male-Offspring-Specific, Haplotype-Dependent, Nonrandom Cosegregation of Alleles at Loci on Two Mouse Chromosomes
... male offspring: To determine whether the (Table 1). Among those offspring that inherit DDK al- observed TRDs at loci on chromosomes X and 11 (de la leles at DXMit210, there is no apparent TRD at Om ...
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RADIATION-INDUCED DOMINANT LETHALITY IN HAPLOID AND DIPLOID SPERM OF THE WASP MORMONIELLA
... If the male parent is irradiated before mating, dominant lethality will be expressed as a reduction in hatchability, a reduced number of female offspring, and a decrease in[r] ...
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Examining the effects of gestational exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid on the developing and differentiating mammary gland, their consequences, and the possible modes of action by which they are mediated
... these offspring did not appear to be simply delayed but rather altogether arrested during a window of development where the gland should be growing at least isometrically with the ...
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Excess maternal salt intake produces sex specific hypertension in offspring: putative roles for kidney and gastrointestinal sodium handling
... adult offspring had few structural or functional abnormalities, but male and female offspring were hypernatraemic (16664 ...male offspring; ...not female, offspring had higher ...
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A Long-Term Study of Neospora caninum Infection in a Swedish Dairy Herd
... itive. Five years later there were 32 seropositive female offspring to 23 dams in the herd. Of these dams, 22 (96%) were seropositive. A comparison of 1-year-old heifers between 1994 and 1999 (Table 2) ...
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The Fate of Paternal Mitochondrial DNA in Developing Female Mussels, Mytilus edulis: Implications for the Mechanism of Doubly Uniparental Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA
... By using pair matings that produce only female offspring or a mixture of female and male offspring and a pair of oligonucleotide primers that amplify part of the COIII gene of the M bu[r] ...
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Kin Selection Is Implicated in Partial Sib-Mating Populations With Constant Viability Differences Before Mating
... every female mates with, and is inseminated once by, either a male chosen at random among its full-sibs with probability b or a male chosen at random among all males in the population at large with probability 1 ...
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Post-weaning selenium and folate supplementation affects gene and protein expression and global DNA methylation in mice fed high-fat diets
... the offspring which are of importance for long-term health, with a high-fat diet being a risk factor for ...hypothesis, female mice were fed a high-fat diet containing low levels of selenium and folate ...
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Parent-offspring association of metabolic syndrome in the Framingham Heart Study
... in female than in male, probably inclusion of young aged offspring (18–32 years) masked the relationship between daughter and mothers in the Fels Study when MetS or clustering of risk factors was considered ...
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Preimplantation genetic diagnosis for gender selection: You don’t always get what you want
... embryos. Female embryos were sought in 84 cycles, and male embryos desired in 38 ...seeking female offspring had a re- duced likelihood of a female-only transfer ...
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Superior sperm competitors sire higher-quality young
... which offspring in the sperm-competition ...males’ offspring were assessed with a reason- able sample size, offspring quality and sperm competitiveness were measured in different ...and ...
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Imprinted gene dysregulation in a Tet1 null mouse model is stochastic and variable in the germline and offspring
... pKO offspring was highly variable. In both male and female offspring, variability in the levels of imprinted genes at the embryonic stages examined could not be explained by changes in mRNA levels of ...
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Effects of Immune Activation during Early or Late Gestation on N Methyl ᴅ Aspartate Receptor Measures in Adult Rat Offspring
... polyI:C offspring, suggesting that more NMDARs would be of the NR1– NR2A containing type but may not be dramatically changed in overall ...mouse offspring exposed to late MIA, but not early MIA ...
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BILATERAL ASYMMETRY AND ITS RELATION TO CERTAIN PROBLEMS OF GENETICS
... BRIDGES, appeared among the offspring of (‘a star pale dichaete male” which was “crossed to a female showing none of these characters, but taken from a stock related to the pale.[r] ...
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Biparental mucus feeding: a unique example of parental care in an Amazonian cichlid
... to offspring while reducing the ability of parents to invest in future offspring (Chong et ...of offspring in Symphysodon, a genus of Amazonian cichlids commonly known as discus fish (Chong et ...
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The effects of plant defensive chemistry on nutrient availability predict reproductive success in a mammal
... individual female possums affected their reproductive success, we applied our in vitro measure of digestible N together with three other measures of foliar chemistry, described in DeGabriel et ...
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