Study Shows That The Fetal Brain Is Vulnerable To Moderate Decreases In Maternal Nutrition
Eating less during early pregnancy impaired fetal brain development in a nonhuman primate model, researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio report. The researchers found decreased formation of cell-to-cell connections, cell division and amounts of growth factors in the fetuses of mothers fed a reduced diet during the first half of pregnancy…
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Study Shows That The Fetal Brain Is Vulnerable To Moderate Decreases In Maternal Nutrition
January 18, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cell-division, diet, early-pregnancy, fetuses, first-half, mothers-fed, oncalldietitian.com, pregnancy / obstetrics, reduced-diet, science, science-center, texas, texas-health, the-fetuses