More troubling are the unknown consequences for the developing brain: leptin may be involved in learning and memory as well as appetite and metabolism, and the effects of a formula like Cawthorne's might not show up for decades.
On the Chinese side, the headwaters of the Mekong, the Indus, and the Brahmaputra are all being transformed by huge hydro projects, with unknown consequences for the rivers and incalculable potential for catastrophic hazards.
However, measurements from hundreds of ocean floats released over the last decade, which descend and drift to depths of up to 2,000 metres, show that huge amounts of heat from the sea surface is now being transferred to the deep ocean, with unknown consequences for the environment, the scientists said.
Spring phenology in temperate forest ecosystems is responding in diverse ways to global climate change, with unknown consequences for insect disturbances that affect forest productivity.
Preterm infants are at risk of metabolic bone disease due to inadequate mineral intake with unknown consequences for later bone health.
She added that the parents "need to know that the 'close monitoring' for visual events is not possible in very young children, and the long-term consequences of such adverse reactions are unknown for the developing system".
The functional consequence for TLR8 up-regulation in the gut is unknown, although except for TLR2 all other TLRs in epithelial cells induce pro-inflammatory signals [ 5].
The effects of this substitution on post-cultivation fallows are unknown, but may have critical consequences for biodiversity and forest regeneration.
The extents to which these carry-over effects continue to influence fitness in the adults that survive to contribute to the population are unknown, but could have important consequences for population dynamics.
However, this same variant, while altering the Sp1/Sp3 site, also introduces a binding site for another transcription factor, Egr-1, although the consequences are unknown [22].
