Centrosomes comprise a pair of centrioles surrounded by an amorphous network of pericentriolar material (PCM). In certain stem cells, the two centrosomes differ in size, and this appears to be important for asymmetric cell division [1, 2]. In some cases, centrosome asymmetry is linked to centriole age because the older, mother centriole always organizes more PCM than the daughter centriole, thu...

The purpose of this study was to answer the question as to whether the food preferences of the young are dependent on the social influences or not. The experiments were conducted on female cats bearing electrodes implanted in the mid-lateral hypothalamus, and their weanling kittens. Each mother was given a self-stimulation test; the mothers which learned to press a lever for the hypothalamic st...

A cross-sectional study was conducted between July and December 1992 to assess the nutritional status, cognitive development, and mother-child interactions in a group of 153 Nicaraguan refugee children living in Costa Rica. Nutritional status was assessed using anthropometric indices. Cognitive development was assessed with the Bayley Scale of Mental Development. Mother-child interaction was as...

BACKGROUND Recent research shows the possibility that the link between parental employment status and children's health can be affected by different cultural or societal settings. The aim of this study was to explore whether the effect of father's and mother's employment status on several aspects of adolescents' health differs between Slovakia and the Netherlands. METHODS Two data sets were u...

Preeclampsia is a long-term cardiovascular risk factor for the mother and possibly the offspring. Preeclampsia and cardiovascular diseases share common pathophysiological features, including endothelial dysfunction. We explored whether endothelial function, measured noninvasively, as well as circulating biomarkers reflecting lipid metabolism, angiogenesis, and inflammation, differed in paired m...

H E frequency of twin births varies in different populations. Furthermore, T it is known for several European groups, for the white population of Australia and for Japanese that a relation exists between the age of the mother and the percentage of twin births. An analysis of vital statistics data by various authors has led to the conclusion that dizygotic and monozygotic twins behave differentl...

The relationship between mother and baby is of fundamental importance in the development of cognitive function and emotion. In this study we investigated the effects of affective photographs of a mother and baby (crying or smiling faces) and other stimuli (neutral mother or baby faces) on visual cognitive function in schizophrenic patents. We recorded exploratory eye movements in 22 healthy con...

The article aims at analysis of the baby’s idiolect in animated series “Family Guy”, featuring a typical American family. study focuses on Stewie Griffin’s remarks, baby family, and way his speech violates age stereotypes (about talk, thinking, basic needs, life goals, etc.). conversation, discourse and corpus analyses have been used to single out Stewie’s specific vocabulary – through word...

Health of the mother is known to affect sex-ratio offspring in sexually dimorphic mammals. Both density-dependent and environmental factors (conditions at present, or seasonal conditions year before) could impact health mother. There are however two opposing hypotheses for whether a good should invest more strong son (that can father many offspring) daughter stay same area use resources). Fetus...

BACKGROUND The death of a mother is a tragedy in itself but it can also have devastating effects for the survival of her children. We aim to explore the impact of a mother's death on child survival in rural Gambia, West Africa. METHODS We used 25 years of prospective surveillance data from the Farafenni Health and Demographic surveillance system (FHDSS). Mortality rates per 1,000 child-years ...