"It seems like there is a critical period for development of perfect acuity," says Sinha. "But for other tasks, they do not seem to have a critical period". One early patient, Bablu, was treated for cataracts at age 16.
To determine whether there is a critical period for development of eye-specific layers in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), we prevented the normal segregation of retinogeniculate afferents and then allowed an extended period of time for recovery.
The present study was designed to evaluate whether increasing the levels of FeLV-B early in FeLV-A infection could result in reduction of the incubation period for development of neoplastic disease.
Growth and later health : a general perspective / Lucas, A -- Early infancy as a critical period for development of obesity and related conditions / Gillman, M.W -- Leptin, nutrition, and the programming of hypothalamic feeding circuits / Bouret, S.G -- Early growth and ageing / Chen, J.-H. J.-H.rell, E.CottrellnE.C..E.
As for NBO, whenever possible, it should be restricted to periods shorter than the latent period for development of pulmonary toxicity.
These results suggest that the first trimester of pregnancy may be a critical period for development of cardiovascular risk factors in later life.
The median period for development of all the metachronous cancers after the enrolment was 1.88 years (1.92, 1.97 and 1.32 years in NCC, TYU and WMU, respectively).
They then followed these patients during the postoperative period for development of acute lung injury, length of time of mechanical ventilation, mortality and total hospital costs.
These distributions were then compared between normally sighted kittens and kittens in which the optical axis had been misaligned surgically for brief periods around the time of the critical period for development for orientation preference in cat visual cortex.
The ROC curve analysis of duration of exposure to denim sandblasting and the latency period for development of radiological silicosis showed that the areas under the curve (AUC) were 0.703 and 0.683, respectively.
