(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.
Prenatal
Definition:
(a.) Being or happening before birth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(2) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(3) Further improvements in the prognosis of low birthweight infants will depend to a large extent on prenatal prevention of disease.
(4) Cloning of the A-T allele(s) will assist in the early or prenatal diagnosis of A-T and provide a firm basis for determining who, in the general population, carries this gene and is therefore at a high risk of cancer.
(5) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(6) The relationship between certain prenatal and background variables and maternal confidence also was assessed.
(7) 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.
(8) Women who had little or no prenatal care were oversampled, so this study is not representative of the New York City population.
(9) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(10) Tay-Sachs disease was diagnosed prenatally on the basis of enzyme assays and the electrophoretic pattern of extracts made from cultured amniotic fluid cells.
(11) These impairments were seen in animals of both sexes, a finding which challenges the view that only females prenatally treated with nicotine show deficits in maze learning.
(12) structural malformations, all congenital defects, and all disorders or abnormalities with possible prenatal etiology.
(13) It is concluded that prenatal sensitization to the immunogenic preparation used is unlikely to have occurred.
(14) In particular, recent work has shown a relationship between early (prenatal) exposure to lead and delayed cognitive development.
(15) Thermostability of placental catalase increases with prenatal development, while the enzyme from fetal liver remains moderately heat-stable throughout the gestation.
(16) The births were categorized by maternal age, the presence or absence of four putative risk factors, and the provision or nonprovision of early prenatal care.
(17) The 27 women who were interviewed had sought prenatal care early, late or not at all.
(18) A case of low atresia of the ileum, diagnosed prenatally by real-time ultrasound scanning, is presented.
(19) Abnormal prenatal findings included maternal pre-eclampsia, fetal growth retardation, and progressive intracranial sonolucency of the trisomic fetus.
(20) Prenatal causes of sensorineural hearing loss in children may be genetic or nongenetic, the deafness occurs alone or with other abnormalities.