Sentence examples for markers of developmental from inspiring English sources

Determining factors which influence these global comparisons are critical in the identification of reliable mechanistic-based markers of developmental toxicity.

"Language skills are far better markers of developmental delay in babies," said Dr. Beth Ellen Davis, a developmental pediatrician at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash., who led the American study.

To gain further insights into progenitor features of these cells, a series of markers of developmental pathways was examined.

11 By school entry, 43 47% of Aboriginal children have markers of developmental vulnerability.

It would be extremely interesting, for the aim we are pursuing of identifying non-invasive markers of developmental competence, to correlate the expression of this gene with the chromatin configuration in these human oocytes.

However, studies of this nature are scarce and result in the destruction of the oocytes under investigation thereby preventing confirmation of the functional significance of markers of developmental potential.

Rather than a marker of developmental delay, these findings appear to indicate an atypical developmental trajectory for key neural networks that underlie such functions in typically developing individuals.

However, it is assumed that small body size per se is not causative for delayed aging, but rather a phenotypic marker of developmental or metabolic characteristics that predispose to increased life expectancy (Bartke, 2005).

These authors regard atypical cerebral lateralisation as a marker of developmental instability, a phenomenon whereby a constellation of genetic and environmental factors can lead to increased noise in early developmental processes; in general, this will lead to more asymmetry in aspects of morphology that are usually symmetric, such as finger length or ear size.

Telomere attrition during development is emerging as a useful integrative marker of developmental stress exposure in birds (Boonekamp, Mulder, Salomons, Dijkstra, & Verhulst, 2014; Herborn et al., 2014; Nettle, Monaghan, Boner, Gillespie, & Bateson, 2013), and it was a key predictor of adult cognition in a previous study (Bateson et al., 2015).

Our markers of fetal developmental experiences are non-specific and further studies should address specific influences on neurodevelopment in both early and late gestation.