JCI Table of Contents, April 3, 2006
...xual development In the first trimester of human fetal development, the male and female external genitali... dexamethasone at this point in the pregnancy, the fetal genitalia can be restored back to the female form. Now, in a study appearing in the April issue of t...Differences in pregnancy risks and outcomes among immigrant groups to the US
..., biologic, and social factors that may affect the fetal growth of babies born to U.S. and foreign-born Mex... necessary to enhance our knowledge in the area of fetal well-being."...Daughters of Indian immigrants continue trend of giving birth to small babies
... that abnormally small babies run a higher risk of fetal distress and often require more intensive medical ...r other biological risk factors may play a role in fetal growth. In addition, Indian mothers were more likely than either Mexican Americans or whites to have...Genes and environment interact to promote cancer
...ch stealth changes often occur during embryonic or fetal development, but emerging data suggests they set the stage for an adult's susceptibility to a host of diseases and behavioral responses. Moreover, epigenetic changes so named because they sit on top of the gene and leave its sequence unchanged can ...UC Berkeley study finds in utero arsenic exposure tied to lung disease and cancer in adults
...ings provide some of the first human evidence that fetal or early childhood exposure to any toxic substance can result in markedly increased disease rates in adults. "The extraordinary risk we found for in utero and early childhood exposure is a new scientific finding," says the study's lead author, Allan...Pregnancy research leads to progress on premature delivery
...response. The inflammation, in turn, may cause the fetal membranes to rupture and lead to preterm labor. Th...l process that causes the premature rupture of the fetal membranes. This is known as when a woman's "water breaks," and once that happens it is difficult to ...Pregnancy complications increase women's risk of heart disease, death
...a, gestational diabetes or preterm birth, in utero fetal death, small- and large-for gestational age, post-partum hemorrhage, stillbirth and twins. In their study, the Duke team performed two analyses one that looked for association between pregnancy complications and the development of cardiovascular d...Marrow-derived stem cells deliver new cytokine to kill brain tumor cells, offer protection
...iginate in the bone marrow instead of the brain or fetal or embryonic tissue, there is an unlimited supply of cells that are free of ethical and tissue-rejection issues. This study provides the first documentation that the marrow-derived stem cells possess the same tumor-tracking capability of other neura...Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders among children living in Russian 'Baby Homes'
...n "Baby Homes" for features that are indicative of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). More than half... World Health Organization. Yet the prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) among Russian children is not well known. In the March issue of ...Commonly used drug may prevent fetal alcohol syndrome
...tments exist that can prevent or reverse FAS after fetal exposure to alcohol. However, Alessandro Ieraci and Daniel Herrera now report encouraging results in mice that might one day change this situation. The researchers tested whether nicotinamide, a drug that is commonly used in patients with some autoi...New sensor to provide early warning of oxygen loss to unborn children
...s starved of oxygen - Fetal Hypoxia. The threat of fetal hypoxia carries dangers not only for the child but...tion if they feel there is a significant threat of fetal hypoxia. However current tests for this condition require blood samples to be taken to a lab for exa...UCSD/Boston University find antidepressants may affect fetus
...es no-cost, confidential information regarding the fetal safety of medications, chemicals, or other agents when used in pregnancy. The CTIS Pregnancy Risk Information line provides information to over 8,000 callers per year including pregnant or pre-pregnant women and health care providers located througho...Stopping antidepressants during pregnancy may lead to symptom recurrence
...aternal depression itself has an adverse effect on fetal and neonatal well being," says Cohen. "While this report does not offer explicit guidelines for individual patients, the study unequivocally suggests that women taking antidepressants who anticipate pregnancy need to address with their doctors not o...Induced labor has some benefits in cases of premature water break
...ous delivery are more likely to undergo continuous fetal monitoring until delivery, this practice should reduce the potential for fetal death," Mercer said, acknowledging that fetal death under these conditions is a "rare but devastatin...Stem cell study seeks to prevent heart failure
...ignals they receive. Some MSCs persist beyond the fetal stage into adulthood in the bone marrow, where researchers believe they await the call to differentiate and replace damaged tissue. In the process of regeneration, humans continually replace old blood and skin cells with new ones by re-starting some ...Study identifies molecule essential for proper localization of blood stem cells
...did not affect the production of stem cells by the fetal liver. In a group of normal mice that received ra... would destroy the bone marrow, transplantation of fetal liver cells from mice with and without CaR allowed the animals to survive, but those who received ce...10 million 'missing' female births in India due to selective abortion
... Candy Hospital, Mumbai, India) states: "In India, fetal sex determination and medical termination of pregnancy on the basis of fetal sex have been illegal since 1994However, there is ample published evidence of rampant sex determinat...New neurons take baby steps in the adult brain
...nline section of Nature. "GABA is important during fetal development, but most scientists thought it would ...urons are excited by GABA, whether they are in the fetal brain or the adult brain, says Song. "The steps of integration essentially shift the neuron from be...Prepregnancy weight is increasing, bringing greater risk
...od flows to the placenta, which can result in poor fetal growth, decreased amniotic fluid and separation of the placenta from the uterine wall before delivery. Gestational diabetes, while less serious, is an increase in blood sugar during pregnancy that returns to normal after delivery but increases the m...... showed in laboratory models of both the adult and fetal brains that exposure to cocaine alters the nerve b...ffect the number of cells in the SNpc of adult and fetal models but did make them more susceptible to damage from MPTP, the researchers reported. Furthermore...