The simple act of placing a baby with Down syndrome on a treadmill to practice walking early in life can yield a wide range of developmental benefits, both physical and emotional, a new study reports.
Plant miRNAs are known to play important roles in a wide range of developmental processes.
These small signaling molecules regulate a wide range of developmental processes, adapting plant growth to ever changing environmental conditions.
Sacral agenesis is a term that applies to a wide range of developmental disorders of the lower portions of the spine and pelvis.
Enhancers are regulatory elements that promote gene expression in a spatio-temporal way and are involved in a wide range of developmental and disease processes.
The ability of cells to sense and respond to mechanical forces is crucial for a wide range of developmental and pathophysiological processes.
Water slowly corrodes the lead in municipal water systems which can cause a wide range of developmental difficulties for children and high blood pressure and kidney ailments in older and adults (Needleman et al. 1990).
Polypeptide cytokines of the TGF-beta family contribute to a wide range of developmental and physiological functions in higher eukaryotes.
Low oxygen tensions also affect a wide range of developmental processes, including cardiogenesis, the stem cell niche, and modulation of NODAL, VEGF, WNT and NOTCH signaling [49].
These advantages pave the way for applications of the "Leu3p-α-IPM" gene switch for a wide range of developmental studies, inducible gene targeting and transgenesis in mice and other organisms, drug discovery, gene therapy and stem cell therapy.
There is strong evidence in humans that maternal nutrient deprivation during pregnancy can program adipocyte metabolism and fat mass towards a propensity for obesity, and lead to a wide range of developmental effects in the offspring [8] [15].
