Examples of gestation

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Apart from the gestation and insemination compartment are all other distinct groups housed in separate compartments.
A gestation of 15 years of continued interest and agonising over the whereabouts of the missing seamen ensured an emotional investment in the expedition.
Therefore, dried brewers' grains are not suitable for growing-finishing or lactation diets, but can be used in gestation diets31.
Can you tell us about the gestation process of the idea itself and also about the process leading to the publication of the paper?
Factors that influence gestation length such as breed or birth weight of the calf were not taken into account.
In continuing pregnancies with fetal cardiac abnormalities, regular follow-up with advancing gestation is essential.
In summary, a rare case is described of doubleoutlet right ventricle with intact ventricular septum, accurately diagnosed at 21 weeks of gestation by foetal echocardiography.
Fetal echocardiograms were repeated at 26 weeks and 35 weeks of gestation.
A male infant was delivered by emergency lower segment cesarean section at 38 weeks of gestation.
Infants born at less than 37 weeks completed gestation are considered to be premature.
Premature rupture of the membranes occurred at 30.6 weeks of gestation and an emergency cesarian section was performed.
At 32 weeks of gestation, cardiomegaly had gradually increased.
We studied 96 singleton pregnancies between the 17th and the 41st week of gestation.
The last semester of gestation is characterized by the beginning of an exuberant increase in the number of synaptic contacts throughout the brain.
The same pattern was observed in births occurring at less than 34 weeks of gestation (3% versus 2%, respectively).
The cellular interactions are determined by 35 weeks of gestation.
Increased nuchal translucency at 10 + 14 weeks of gestation as a marker for major cardiac defects.
Prior growth rate determines the fetal growth response to acute maternal undernutrition in fetal sheep of late gestation.
Women delivered on average at a later gestation with the cerclage in situ (33.0 vs 28.8 weeks; p = 0.001).
Fetal peripheral blood mononuclear cell proliferative responses to mitogenic and allergenic stimuli during gestation.
Biochemical gestational thyrotoxicosis should resolve by 20 weeks' gestation.
Insulin-like growth factor binding proteins in maternal serum throughout gestation and in the puerperium: effects of a pregnancy-associated serum protease activity.
Pre-eclampsia is limited to the second half of gestation and the early postpartum period.
Effects of venous pooling on renal hemodynamics and water, electrolyte and aldosterone excretion during normal gestation.
Screening for trisomy 21 in twin pregnancies by maternal age and fetal nuchal translucency thickness at 10-14 weeks of gestation.
Table 1 shows the placental features that can be readily observed at this stage of gestation.
In the uncomplicated pregnancies, titres remained stable or decreased with advancing gestation but concentrations rose significantly in those who miscarried the index pregnancy.
The fetus adopts an ovoid shape throughout much of gestation.
There was one case of placental abruption at 34 weeks' gestation.
In those not taking iron a progressive drop in the haemoglobin was observed, the lowest level being reached at 32 weeks gestation.
Antibody titers rarely change during gestation, poor outcomes have been reported with low titres, and stable serial titres may be falsely reassuring.
We propose that the maintenance of myometrial quiescence is the most important process regulating the length of gestation.
Circulatory responses to acute maternal hyperoxaemia and hypoxaemia assessed non-invasively by ultrasound in fetal sheep at 0.3-0.5 gestation.
There are critical periods during gestation when the embryo and fetus are particularly sensitive to thermal effects.
In contrast, the frequency with which cerebellar abnormalities are present in association with myelomeningocele does not appear to be gestation dependent9.
The mean gestation at diagnosis was 19 weeks.
In 92.7% of fetuses the renal pelvis was 5mm, implying that the diagnosis is gestation-independent.
The thrombosis necessitated valve replacement surgery with a porcine bioprosthesis at 22 weeks gestation.
Also, they found that between 20 and 30 weeks gestation there was an absence of accelerations in 13% of their recordings.
Placental volume measured by threedimensional ultrasound at 11 to 13 + 6 weeks of gestation: relation to chromosomal defects.
227 in being unresolved, a multiple linear regression showed that having a funeral rather than the gestation of loss was the impor tant predictor.
A first appearance at the hospital by an estimated 20 weeks gestation has been taken as the absolute limit for initiating the procedure.
Apart from the length of gestation, birth weights of singleton sibs may be differentially affected by many environmental factors.
The mean is used because the distribution of gestation lengths in these data is normal.
The controls used were women giving birth after 28 weeks' gestation.
Suspecting that she was pregnant only after her second missed period, she did not discuss the situation with anybody until 21 weeks gestation.
Frequency and occurrence of late-gestation losses from cattle cloned embryos.
Infants were full-term 39- 42 weeks of gestation!, with no reported birth defects, health abnormalities, or discernible visual deficits.
However, if taken during foetal gestation, it interfered with limb development.
When gestation exceeds 12 weeks, special permission is required.
Traces of this lengthy gestation remain apparent in the finished product.
The gestation period has matched the size of the book.
Such a situation, which might well persist for much or all of the gestation period, could result in a higher number of stillbirths.
The twins were born prematurely at 29 weeks' gestation, but were otherwise well, requiring only minimal resuscitation and respiratory support.
Ultrasound scan of the fetus had been normal at 18 weeks gestation.
She booked at 11 weeks gestation when no problems were found.
The group represented 1.5% of the population of less than 37 weeks gestation and less than 2500 g admitted to our neonatal unit.
The heart is seen in the four chamber view at 18 weeks gestation.
Fetal ultrasound (at 26 weeks gestation) showed an intrapericardial tumor.
A planned cesarean section was performed at 34 weeks gestation.
A female baby was then delivered at the 37 th week of gestation by cesarean section.
The next echocardiogram was performed at the 33rd week of gestation.
We recommended salt and physical activities restriction from 13lh week of gestation and hospitalization from the 32lh week of gestation until delivery.
The third step involves neuronal migration to their eventual target locations (8th to 15th week of gestation).
Participants were all nulliparous women attending antenatal care clinics before the 20th week of gestation after a randomly selected starting date.
A significantly larger number of those with affective disorder suffered a maternal infection in the 5th month of gestation.
Neuronal migration, which occurs as early as the second month of gestation, is controlled by a complex array of chemical guides and signals.
A study of 40 pregnant women has concluded that the use of ultrasonography is necessary for identifying disorders during the first months of gestation (58).
In the course of gestation, cytokines can provoke alterations in fetal brain circulation.
Even more prominent, however, is the whole imagery linking up iron smelting to gestation and delivery.
Leaseholders facing briefer gestation periods would plant sooner rather than later.
Is routine cesarean section necessary for vertex-breech and vertextransverse twin gestations?
However, women at all gestations and across the range of severities displayed a wide range of scores on measures of mood.
Whilst the fetal abdominal circumference is the best parameter to assess fetal size in singleton gestations this is less reliable in twins.
In one study, the average gestational age at detection of multiple gestations fell from 27 to 20 weeks.
An understanding of the relationship of the placentae and fetal membranes is crucial in comprehending chorionicity in twin gestations.
Both may or may not include live and stillbirths, possibly making a considerable difference, particularly at very low gestations.
At very preterm gestations there is no evidence that being one of a multiple pregnancy affects survival.
At later gestations changes in the diameter of the middle cerebral artery along with increases in the cortical surface and proliferation of capillaries keep vascular resistance low.
Randomized controlled trials of ultrasound screening conducted before 20 weeks found higher rates of detection of multiple gestations (83% to 100%) than with unscreened controls (60% to 76%).
Although the evidence needs to be assembled and systematically assessed, it seems likely that it is a general characteristic of morphological periods that their gestations are lengthy.
Future studies of the early life origins of adult disease will require disentangling the effects of length of gestation from fetal growth.
Nonetheless, the risks of prematurity are not negligible at 32 weeks' gestation.
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