The fine print for one product, Similac Advance, did note that another Similac formula without the additives would also support brain and eye development.
Omega-3 fatty acids, found in oily fish such as salmon, herring, sardines and trout now get plenty of press for all sorts of benefits beyond protecting against heart disease, including fostering brain and eye development in kids and helping ease depression.
The findings reported here indicate that nestin is indeed essential for zebrafish brain and eye development.
These results suggest that nestin is required for normal brain and eye development in zebrafish.
Indeed, mutations affecting OTX2 protein coding sequence have early and severe effects on brain and eye development [14], [24].
These results suggest that nestin is essential for zebrafish brain and eye development probably through control of progenitor cell apoptosis.
In contrast to mice lacking Fat4, Fat1 −/− mice have no planar polarity phenotype, but they are perinatal lethal with severe defects in brain, kidney and eye development (Ciani et al, 2003; Saburi et al, 2012).
As a member of the highly conserved bicoid homeodomain transcription factor family that also includes OTX1 and CRX, OTX2 has been shown to play crucial roles in brain, cerebellum, pineal gland and eye development (Acampora et al., 1995; Matsuo et al., 1995; Ang et al., 1996; Simeone, 1998; Beby and Lamonerie, 2013).
These results, combined with analysis of dsx expression in the developing pupal brain and the detection of numerous compound eye and eye development GO categories among genes associated with Dsx consensus binding sites (Table 5; Additional file 2), indicate that male and female compound eyes and higher order visual processing may differ in A. aegypti.
The poor birth outcomes reported include those known to be caused by Zika, such as microcephaly and other severe fetal defects, including calcium deposits in the brain indicating possible brain damage, excess fluid in the brain cavities and surrounding the brain, absent or poorly formed brain structures and abnormal eye development, the CDC said.
Most genes in this region were required for nervous system development – impacting brain morphology, eye development, axonal density or organization, and motor response.
