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    Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek Famine

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    This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that adverse outcomes due to the famine are largest for infants. Further, in our regression analysis we exploit the fact that the famine was more severe in urban than in rural areas. Consistent with our prediction, we find that urban-born cohorts show larger negative impacts on educational outcomes than the rural-born cohorts

    Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

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    L' Exploration dynamique de la fonction cortico-surrénalienne

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    Thèse d'agrégation de l'enseignement supérieur (Faculté de médecine) -- UCL, 196

    Diurnal pattern of plasma insulin concentration in the human

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    Insulin in human plasma was assayed by the radioimmunological procedure of Yalow and Berson (10). Plasma insulin levels in the course of the day were compared with those found during the night. In the subjects studied, a higher insulin concentration was observed during the night when there is no stimulation brought about by food ingestion than during the day when normal feeding occurred. The differences at midnight and at 8 A. M. were statistically significant. The variation of the plasma insulin levels suggests of the existence of a circadian rhythm of the plasma insulin content. © 1966 Springer-Verlag.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

    Lessons from the pathology of the diabetic pancreas.

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    Different events such as virus infections, toxins, nutritional factors, antiinsulin antibodies may be rendered responsible for the pathological changes in the pancreatic B-cell and result in a diabetic state in the postnatal, adolescent or adult age. These different interferences which may lead to the diabetic state need full consideration and assessment if prevention and cure are to be considered

    Fetal plasma prolactin levels and fetal growth in relation to maternal CB-154 treatment in the rat.

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    Pregnant Wistar rats received daily injections of 1 mg of CB-154 starting Day 14 of gestation. The CB-154 treatment did not suppress maternal plasma prolactin levels, but a significant decrease in fetal prolactin was seen. This suppression of prolactin levels in fetal plasma however did not influence fetal growth. These results do indicate that prolactin does not act as a growth promoting hormone in fetal rats
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