The growth rate for infants and young children manifests the significant differences between age, sex, regional, and seasonal distributions. The growth rate for infants and young children is a complex process that depends on interaction of the genetic and environmental factors. All genetic and environmental factors jointly contribute to the growth rate for infants and young children, for exampl...

Zinnia is an annual plant with the long flowering period from late spring to mid-autumn. It is a popular plant for landscape. In the present study, the effect of two types of growth promoting bacteria and Azolla compost on some ornamental characteristics of Zinnia were evaluated in pot cultivation and greenhouse conditions. The factorial experiment was conducted in three replications based on a...

The nutritional requirements of mammalian embryos changes throughout pre-implantation period, coincident with changes in the secretion of the female reproductive tract. Therefore, it has been suggested that sequential culture media may support nutritional requirements for optimal growth of the mammalian embryos. In this study, we investigated the effect of two different concentrations (10 or 10...

Birth weight remains one of the most important measures we have of the health status of a population, and is a strong predictor of both neonatal mortality and morbidity. It reflects maternal nutritional status and fetal growth rates in the antenatal period. Although a large number of physiological and pathological variables can affect the growth rate, for most cases of growth-restricted fetuses...

The effect of exogenous and endogenous factors on the thyroid is manifested as stimulation or inhibition of the gland's excretory activity and growth regulation of the thyroid tissue itself. External factors affecting thyroid enlargement were known as early as approximately 2000 years B.C. in ancient China, where marine products were administered to inhabitants of the central part of the countr...

I!. Haemopoietic growth factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 A. lnterleukin 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 I. Cells which respon.d to interleukin 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Thrombopoietin (TPO) is the physiologic regulator of platelet production and works by binding to its receptor on megakaryocyte precursor cells, thereby activating a large number of antiapoptotic and cell maturation pathways. "First-generation" recombinant forms of TPO were developed over a decade ago and were found to increase the platelet count in patients undergoing nonmyeloablative chemother...

Erythropoietin is a lineage-specific distal-acting factor that stimulates maturation of committed erythroid progenitors to become mature erythrocytes.3 Carbohydrates, rich in sialic acid, make up 30% to 40% of the 34,000-Da molecule and are essential for its secretion, stability in the circulation, and biologic activity. Many earlier-acting factors, including stem cell factor/kit ligand, interl...