(a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth; accompying or dating from one's birth; native.
(a.) Presiding over nativity; as, natal Jove.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brain macrophages were studied in dispersed monolayer cultures of post-natal mouse cerebella.
(2) The precise aetiology of AHQS is still unresolved but it is concluded that it probably occurs post-natally and that some pigs have a genetic liability to develop the condition.
(3) We made it clear we don’t support extending hours to do anything other than debate the important issue of Senate voting reform and we won’t do anything to bring on the ABCC legislation,” Greens leader, Richard Di Natale, told ABC TV.
(4) The clinical findings in six natural and two experimental cases of Kikuyu grass poisoning in Natal, South Africa, are described and compared with findings in cases of toxicity reported elsewhere.
(5) In normal rats, insulin-induced adrenal epinephrine secretion increases during the first 10 days of post-natal life.
(6) Two distinct subpopulations of amacrine cells were clearly recognized after post-natal day 6; one was positive for CaBP and the other for PV.
(7) A decreasing birth rate, and pre-natal diagnosis of some major congenital anormalies with the possibility of termination of pregnancy, are likely to prevent further increases to neonatal surgical units.
(8) At post-natal day 3, a primed constant infusion of 3 mg of [15N]glycine day-1 kg-1 was given.
(9) Dealing with the special problem of pregnancy in women with the biological disorder, one ought to consider the literature on the subject, showing the large occurrence of ante- and post-natal accidents.
(10) The marked differences in the lipolytic activities of adipose tissue emphasize the distinct influence of the post-natal nutrition on metabolic functions in the later life and lead to the conclusion that the metabolism of adipose tissue of animals from small nests is directed towards a long-term increased storage of lipids.
(11) The post-natal development of the electrophysiological properties of cortical layer V pyramidal neurons was investigated with intracellular recordings from rat sensorimotor cortical slices, in vitro.
(12) This approach provides a reliable tool for pre- and post-natal diagnosis of all forms of GM2-gangliosidosis without ambiguity.
(13) In a controlled series of 167 circumcised patients, receiving optimal ante-natal and intra-partum care in hospital, we observed only short-term complications at delivery, with no long-term effects on the mother or the baby.
(14) The nurses are talking about people and their status,” a woman from KwaZulu-Natal told the report’s authors.
(15) Both CD4+CD8- and CD4-CD8+ T cell subsets were present in the LN as early as 1 day post-natally with CD4-CD8+ predominating among LN T cells, even though CD3+CD4+CD8- cells predominated over CD3+CD4-CD8+ cells in the thymus.
(16) The highest rate for cancer of the respiratory system was found in Africans from Natal, predominantly Zulu.The findings of this survey confirm those of previous South African surveys.
(17) A decade ago, she was hampered by post-natal depression after six weeks' maternity leave from RBS.
(18) "With devices like [the Xbox] Natal [which is expected to be launched this Christmas] we're really talking about a converged interactive media industry," says Jon Kingsbury, who runs the Creative Economy Innovation Programme at the independent National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta).
(19) No previous anticonceptive method, 91%; pre-natal control, 69%.
(20) In addition, there was a strong family history of natal teeth, which may suggest a hereditary basis for the development of the odontogenic hamartoma.
Postnatal
Definition:
(a.) After birth; subsequent to birth; as, postnatal infanticide; postnatal diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of postnatal methyl mercury exposure on the ontogeny of renal and hepatic responsiveness to trophic stimuli were examined.
(2) With [125I-Tyr11]SRIF as a radiolabeled ligand, the specific ligand binding to crude membrane increased transiently in the early phase of postnatal development and then decreased.
(3) Results of the present study show that epithelial cells of ciliated columnar type covering vocal cords change remarkably to nonciliated squamous cells between prenatal and postnatal stages.
(4) This reactivity decreased first during late postnatal development.
(5) One patient died of pulmonary hypoplasia, but all the survivors showed restoration toward normal form postnatally.
(6) The study of three stages of postnatal development in the rat brain shows changes in the mucopolysaccharides content of the axons in function of the stage of development.
(7) These results suggest that the postnatal absence of PRL in mice does not result in a major reduction in the total population of TIDA neurons.
(8) The inter-connecting linkage system develops postnatally, and the 'tip-linkages' are already found in one-week-old mice, suggesting that the critical organization of the micromechanics of the stereocilia matures rapidly during the postnatal period.
(9) As early as postnatal Day 2, NPY-I nerves were observed in connective tissue septa of the developing ovary.
(10) We have studied the postnatal ontogeny of creatine kinase (CK) and the glycolytic enzymes phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK), phosphoglycerate mutase (PGM), enolase (En), and pyruvate kinase (PK) in rat brain and uterus.
(11) The postnatal development of substance P-like immunoreactivity (SP-LI) in the urinary bladder (assayed by radioimmunoassay and immunohistochemistry) was investigated in rats and compared with changes in the contractile response to acetylcholine, SP or capsaicin.
(12) G beta and 48-kDa protein mRNAs are already detectable at birth, opsin mRNA appears by postnatal day 5 (P5), G gamma mRNA at P6 and G alpha mRNA by P8.
(13) The inhibition of muscle cell proliferation which takes place in the early stages of the postnatal heart growth does not seem to be caused primarily by a disturbance of their S-phase.
(14) Between postnatal days 6 and 25, both endorphin and enkephalin levels increase, approaching their adult distribution pattern.
(15) These cells were observed throughout postnatal life from the second postnatal day to the oldest cats studied (up to 13 years old).
(16) Electron microscope examinations of the developing triadic junction in fibers from leg muscles of fetal and postnatal rats reveal a range of complexity from no structural connections across the space between apposed membranes of T and SR to all of the junctional structures visible in adult rat muscle fibers.
(17) Offspring of marmosets reached adult values of 14CO2 exhalation at 8 days postnatally when using [14CO2]-methacetin as substrate and at 30 days postnatally using [14C2H5]-phenacetin in the breath test.
(18) These observations suggest that refractive anomalies such as anisometropia that limit high frequency spatial resolution and binocular integration can present a major obstacle to the postnatal development of binocular vision.
(19) Newborn rats were rendered hyperthyroid (daily subcutaneous injections of L-triiodothyronine, 10 micrograms 100 g-1 body weight) or hypothyroid (0.05% 6-n-propyl-2-thiouracil in drinking water to nursing mothers) during the first 3 weeks of postnatal life.
(20) 5beta-Dihydrotestosterone was adminstered to mothers for 4 days from Day 12 to Day 15 of pregnancy (prenatal treatment) and to pups for 5 days of postnatal life (neonatal treatment) at daily doses of 1 mg and 200 mug, respectively.