Sentence examples for toxic to the developing from inspiring English sources

Neurobiologists say, according to Leach, that high cortisol levels are "toxic" to the developing brain.

Some studies have indicated that the contaminants are considered toxic to the developing nervous systems of children and to immune systems.

As it turns out, the conditions that attend poverty — what a National Scientific Council report summarized as "overcrowding, noise, substandard housing, separation from parent(s), exposure to violence, family turmoil," and other forms of extreme stress — can be toxic to the developing brain, just like drug or alcohol abuse.

"We've known from NOAA research over the past two decades that crude oil is toxic to the developing hearts of fish embryos and larvae, but haven't understood precisely why," said coauthor Nat Scholz, leader of the Ecotoxicology Program at NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle.

"Lead is toxic to the developing brain at extremely low levels that 5 to 10 years ago were thought to be safe". Coincidently, a CDC advisory panel recommended in January that the threshold at which a child is deemed to have lead poisoning should be cut in half, from 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood to 5. Dallas' level last year before being admitted to the hospital: 58 micrograms.

PBDEs may also be toxic to the developing nervous system (Costa and Giordano 2007).

It is also possible that due to the drug's lipid solubility, it was distributed into either the albumin or yolk and subsequently was toxic to only the developing embryo.

The firm said that it was a member of the e-Stewards Electronics Stewardship campaign of the Basel Action Network, a US-based charitable organisation that works to stop the export of toxic waste to the developing world.

Even severely intellectually disabled adults with late-diagnosed PAH deficiency show improvements in challenging behavior with lowering of blood PHE levels.4 Pregnancy presents a particular problem in women with PAH deficiency; as high levels of PHE are toxic to the brain of the developing fetus and, along with other teratogenic effects, result in a defined maternal PKU (MPKU) syndrome.

Toxic chemicals likely cause injury to the developing human brain either through direct toxicity or inter-actions with the genome.

Thus, TDP-43 misregulation during this period could have profound effects on RNA metabolism, which could be highly toxic to neurons in the developing brain.