Washington [US], April 11 (ANI): An irreversible loss of regulatory T-cells in the colon is found in infants who were exposed to antibiotics in utero and infancy. T cells are a valuable component of the immune system's response toward allergens in later life, after only six months.
Study finds increased risk of postpartum depression in women exposed to harmful chemicals in plastic ANI | Updated: Apr 11, 2021 21:01 IST
Washington [US], April 11 (ANI): A novel study has found that there is a higher risk of experiencing postpartum depression by women who are exposed to endocrine-disrupting chemicals commonly found in plastics, during pregnancy.
The findings of the study were published in the Endocrine Society s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
The study also found that these harmful chemicals may influence hormonal shifts during pregnancy.
Postpartum depression is a serious and common psychiatric disorder that affects up to 1 in 5 childbearing women. The cause of postpartum depression is not well understood, but hormonal changes during pregnancy have been found to be an important factor.
Washington [US], April 4 (ANI): Studying Shakespeare's plays could help medical students connect more closely with their patients, suggest the findings of a recent study by a palliative care doctor.
Tokyo [Japan], April 4 (ANI): A new study has revealed a new benefit of keeping sugar at bay. Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have shown that skeletal muscle satellite cells, key players in muscle repair, proliferate better in low glucose environments.
ANI | Updated: Apr 03, 2021 18:15 IST
Washington [US], April 3 (ANI): A team of researchers at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science studied different research works on the differences between men and women s brains and concluded that the two brains are hardly different from one another. Men and women s brains do differ slightly, but the key finding is that these distinctions are due to brain size, not sex or gender, researcher Dr Eliot said. Sex differences in the brain are tiny and inconsistent, once individuals head size is accounted for.
The unusually large study of studies, Dump the dimorphism : Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size, published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, finds that size is the only clear-cut difference between male and female brains.