conclusions the extract contains substances that are effective on the delivery rate, sex ratio, and the number of newborns in the female rats. it may affect through the ionic changes in the rats, by modifying the activity of follicle-stimulating and testosterone hormones, and/or changing the rate of fertilizing ability of sperms containing y chromosome. this phenomenon may also be due to loweri...

Infanticide is easiest to understand when it involves killing the offspring of others [1], but a parent may also kill its own offspring if the sacrifice of currently dependent young leads to higher survival of brood mates [2] or an improvement in the parent's likely future reproduction [3]. However, sex-specific infanticide by parents of their own offspring, although occurring in some human soc...

OBJECTIVE This study provides an overview of the epidemiology of diabetes in the Manitoba First Nation population. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The study uses data derived from the population-based Manitoba Diabetes Database to compare the demographic and geographic patterns of diabetes in the Manitoba First Nation population to the non-First Nation population. RESULTS Although the prevalenc...