Research into phthalates - organic compounds used to make plastics softer - suggests that they can trigger abnormal sexual development and so reduce fertility, although the effect appears to be confined to developing babies rather than sexually mature adults.
He continues, "Indeed, as the history of female circumcision suggests, if male circumcision were confined to developing nations, it would by now have emerged as an international cause celebre, stirring passionate opposition from feminists, physicians, politicians and the global human rights community".
Similarly, in barley HvGA3,18ox1 encodes a bifunctional GA 3β,18-dihydroxylase; this gene is closely related to TaGA3ox3 and TaGA1ox1 and its expression is confined to developing grain.
Expression of this gene, which encodes a protein anchored to the plasma membrane, is confined to developing glomeruli (5A) and weakly-expressing cells scattered throughout the CNS, presumably representing blood vessels.
Current dogma is that telomerase activity is confined to developing cells, adult stem cells, germline cells, and subsets of immune cells and that most somatic tissues have low or undetectable telomerase; thus, telomerase in healthy adult tissues is tightly regulated.
Nucleic acid detection, to date, has mainly been confined to wealthy, developed countries or to the large centralized facilities in the developing world that can marshal the resources required to perform these techniques.
Fluorescent co-labeling of CD34 with Ang-1 demonstrated that Ang-1 expression is confined to the developing respiratory epithelium and that CD34 is expressed by the developing vasculature in the interstitial mesenchyme (Fig. 3B).
Once a final prototype is ready, it may be tested by doctors in the Philippines and Colombia.Applications need not be confined to the developing world.
The activity of transposable elements has often been assumed to be confined to the developing embryo and possibly to cancer cells in humans (Branciforte and Martin 1994; Ergun et al. 2004; Martin 1991; Martin and Branciforte 1993).
In contrast to WUS, which is confined to the developing shoot meristem region, AGO10 is expressed in a broader pattern, including the shoot meristem and the pro-vasculature [ 10].
