prenatally

prenatal | American Dictionary

prenatal
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/priˈneɪ·t̬əl/
happening or existing before birth:
prenatal care

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prenatal
In other words, by altering serotonin terminal development, prenatal exposure alters events weeks downstream from the exposure.
The authors found that stress exposure without accompanying glucocorticoid release did not lead to stress system abnormalities normally seen among offspring exposed to prenatal stress.
It may thus be possible to prevent schizophrenia in some genetically predisposed offspring through careful prenatal and perinatal monitoring and early intervention.
This suggests the possibility that prenatal factors interact with genetically determined liabilities in the epigenesis of schizophrenia.
These conjectures are proposed in lieu of specific information regarding the precise mechanisms linking prenatal, postpartum, and concurrent hormones and temperament and behavior regulation.
The odds of traditional religious women seeing a doctor for prenatal care are about 35% lower than their counterparts in the reference group.
There are several articles of the law focusing on prenatal diagnosis, including provisions for identifying high-risk people and administrative principles for health personnel and institutions.
Guidelines for use of terminology describing the impact of prenatal alcohol on the offspring.
Prenatal nicotine exposure modifies behavior of mice through early development.
However, it is important to remember that maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy has other consequences in addition to prenatal nicotine exposure.
While the primary independent variable in this study was prenatal stress, all of the subjects were peer reared to avoid differential maternal treatment.
These included maternal race, age, gravida, number of prenatal care visits, and type of medical insurance.
Presently, little is known concerning the impact that maternal depression during the prenatal and early postpartum period has on fetal neurobiological and psychological development.
Thus, other mechanisms of transmission must be considered, including prenatal exposure to maternal depression which may be associated with a lessthan-optimal intrauterine environment.
Released from its own taint, prenatal testing could more effectively facilitate women's reproductive freedom and the many important ways that freedom ramifies through women's lives.
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