The human requirement for thyroid hormones begins before birth; this may be inferred from the occurrence, in the newborn cretin, of clinical signs of retarded skeletal and mental development.

Thus, in the continued absence of ZIKV vaccines or antivirals, small animal models of ZIKV transplacental transmission have never been more necessary to test antiviral strategies for both mother and ...

The usual way in which the fetus is infected is by transplacental spread after maternal infection in which the organism circulates in the mother's blood. These infections, acquired in utero ...

During pregnancy, the presence of TRAb is a risk factor for fetal or neonatal thyroid dysfunction as a result of the transplacental passage of maternal TRAb. [252,253] The prevalence of thyroid ...

Barratt was born with congenital toxoplasmosis (a fetal infection caused by the transplacental transmission of the parasite ...

Barratt was born with congenital toxoplasmosis (a fetal infection caused by the transplacental transmission of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii during pregnancy), a rare condition that left her with ...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States. Because of this, there are many myths and false information about how it spreads. You cannot ...

CPT-1A deficiency may be discovered at greater rates with the second newborn test done at 14 days of age due to birth stress and transplacental carnitine transfer. Encephalopathy with hypoglycemia ...

1 Department of Clinical Genetics, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK 2 Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Correspondence to: Dr S M Park Department of Clinical ...