Protein Malnutrition and Brain Development

Malnutrition and brain development.

2. During a Journal Club meeting while I was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University I was asked to discuss a paper by Enesco and Le Blond. This was in 1964, the early days of the DNA revolution. And these authors noted that the amount of DNA in every cell of a particular species was the same. This number was already known in many species—6.2 picagrams of DNA in every rat cell; 6.0 picagra...

Malnutrition and psychological development.

Intra-generational protein malnutrition impairs temporal astrogenesis in rat brain

The lack of information on astrogenesis following stressor effect, notwithstanding the imperative roles of astroglia in normal physiology and pathophysiology, incited us to assess temporal astrogenesis and astrocyte density in an intra-generational protein malnutrition (PMN) rat model. Standard immunohistochemical procedures for glial lineage markers and their intensity measurements, and qRT-PC...

Protein Energy Malnutrition in preschool tribe’s children of Chhattisgarh

Objective: The aim of this study was to find out the prevalence of protein energy malnutrition(PEM) by anthropometric measurements in preschool children of tribal community of Chhattisgarh. Material and Methods: A total of 449 children [237 boys and 212 girls] from 286 families were selected randomly. Anthropometric measurements were done as per standard protocol. The level of underweight, stun...

Protein Quality, Growth, and Malnutrition

This article is the introduction to our formal proceedings of the symposium titled ‘‘Protein Quality, Growth and Malnutrition: Latest Scientific Findings and the Role of Dairy in Food Aid,’’ held during the Experimental Biology 2015 annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.