Showing papers in "Early Human Development in 1985"

TL;DR: It is speculated that the reduced variability of motor patterns may find its origin in a change of central neural function, just as the reduced heart rate variability and decreased breathing irregularity found in IUGR fetuses.

TL;DR: The incidence of clinically significant birth asphyxia was assessed over a 4-year period in a busy teaching hospital maternity hospital and there is some evidence that the incidence of this condition has not changed over a 10 year period.

TL;DR: It is concluded that with a severely defective fetal central nervous system, already in the first half of pregnancy movement patterns are abnormal and this abnormality mainly concerns the quality of the different movements.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that growth hormone is indeed related to cell replication and insulin to cytoplasmic growth in the postnatal period but the role of other hormones is clearly important, augmenting or opposing these hormones.

TL;DR: There appears to be a stability of the intraburst sucking rhythm from 30 weeks of gestation, whereas the interburst rhythm is less regular.

TL;DR: Colostrum levels of colostrum may imply active sequestration by the mammary gland in compensation for limited placental transport, and content of vitamin A and E appears to parallel mammary glands lipid synthesis.

TL;DR: The growth-retarded fetuses showed differences in the quality and quantity of somatic motility in comparison to low risk fetuses of equivalent gestational age, and these observations suggest that some aspects of central nervous system function are disturbed in growth- retarding fetuses, even in the absence of fetal distress.

TL;DR: It is possible that an iron deficiency state which persists during the critical period of brain development in infancy has long-lasting effects on cognitive functioning and prevention of iron deficiency may contribute to promotion of child development and better achievement.

TL;DR: Glomerular filtration rate showed a slow rise with gestational age, and a rapid rise with increasing postnatal age which was shown to be due to a temporary cessation of growth rather than a true acceleration in renal maturation.

TL;DR: It is concluded that premature babies with a postconceptional age of 35 weeks can discriminate between sweet and not-sweet, and the greater sucking response to glucose than to water at the first trial implies a genetic factor in the preference for sweet in humans.

TL;DR: There were far fewer fetal responses in sleep states than in states of wakefulness, and a relatively high level of spontaneous fetal activity (high variation of fetal heart rate and fetal motility) present in states 2 F and 4 F.

TL;DR: Both the behavioural state and FHR should be taken into account when evaluating flow velocity waveforms in the fetal descending aorta during the latter weeks of pregnancy.

TL;DR: It is concluded, that in AFD term infants acidaemia at birth is only slightly related to neonatal neurological morbidity.

TL;DR: Milk intake and feeding patterns of 45 exclusively breast-fed infants were documented longitudinally over the first four months of life and feeding frequency and duration declined in successive months of lactation.

TL;DR: The study attempted to determine if the bulk of dietary supplements given to pregnant women after midgestation affects fetal growth.

TL;DR: In a first experiment a miniaturised radio hydrophone was implanted inside the amniotic sac in three pregnant ewes and recordings showed that the sound of the mother's voice was slightly louder when picked up by the hydrophone inside the AMS, and that sounds recorded during labour included long and loud low frequency sounds associated with contractions, and an increase in the incidence of sounds produced by the maternal cardiovascular system and by breathing.

TL;DR: It is proposed that a premature decrease in serum myoinositol among small preterm infants with RDS is not beneficial, since myoinosisol may promote hormone-induced lung maturation and healing of lung damage.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the development of behavioural states is generally similar in the Fetuses of low risk nulliparae and multiparae, but that states appear at a somewhat later gestational age in the fetuses of nullipARAe.

TL;DR: The sensitization hypothesis of Warburton and Naylor predicts no increase in birth weight with parity when the mother changes mate, but this hypothesis was not supported by the data, since similar increases in birthWeight with parity were found in both types of families.

TL;DR: The fast learners during their first year of life were superior to the others in their educational capacity at the age of 14 years and the prognosis in this respect was independent of social class.

TL;DR: The fetal eye is studied ultrasonically during the second and third trimesters with a large aperture, dynamically focused imaging system, and associations between limited ocular growth and delayed cerebral development are reaffirmed.

TL;DR: It is concluded that in well controlled diabetic pregnancy there is a delay in functional motor development of the embryonic and fetal nervous system; this delay is not very specific but mostly parallels that of growth; breathing movements emerge relatively early as compared to growth.

TL;DR: Using these values, glomerular filtration rate, urine flow, and the urinary excretion rates of substances may be estimated from measurements made on plasma and untimed urines, which are useful in clinical practice because they avoid the need to make accurately timed collections of urine.

TL;DR: Infants with small lesions of PVH or PVL or with ventricular dilatation developed as well as children with normal US scan, whereas more diffuse or extensive US changes of PVL had a poorer prognosis.

TL;DR: It was shown that the pulsatility of the velocity waveform decreased and that diastolic frequency increased over the 5 days and the significance of, and possible mechanism for, this change is discussed.

TL;DR: It was found that development at 18 months was not correlated to degree of risk, and neither was there any correlation between neurological examination at term and later handicap or psychomotor retardation.

TL;DR: The incidence of symptomatic patent ductus arteriosus in very-low-birth-weight infants and the role of echocardiography in predicting sPDA before clinical signs are evident were evaluated and may be employed in studies needed to assess the benefit of early surgical or pharmacologic therapy for infants at highest risk for sP DA.

TL;DR: It appears likely that version of fetal presentation from breech to cephalic occurs as the fetus tries to accommodate itself to the shape of the uterus during the state of active whole body movements, and the frank breech presentation of the fetus might result when the wholeBody movements are weak or absent.