Directed Graphs of Messenger RNA Abundances in Human Myometrium

<p>Three models were generated and are represented in the following graphics. (A) Does progesterone withdrawal initiate labour? (B) Does inflammation initiate labour? (C) Does oxytocin receptor mediate onset of labour?</p

Messenger RNA Abundances in Human Myometrium

<p>Box and whisker plots of mRNA abundances of PRA and PRB, ERα, ERβ, IL-8, COX-2, MnSOD, β2-microglobulin (β2μ), connexin-43 (CX-43), OTR, and the homeobox gene HoxA10 in labouring (L) and non-labouring (N) women.</p

Additional file 1: of A healthy eating index to measure diet quality in pregnant women in Singapore: a cross-sectional study

A. Details of scoring a diet with the HEI-SGP. B. Sub group analyses of maternal characteristics by Healthy Eating Index for pregnant women in Singapore (HEI-SGP) in the GUSTO cohort study. C. Foods included in Components of the Healthy Eating Index for pregnant women in Singapore. D. Components of the Healthy Eating Index for pregnant women in Singapore in comparison with HEI, AHEI, AHEI-P. (DOCX 33 kb

Demographics.

<p>Abbreviations. SD – standard deviation; ITE – Institute of Technical Education; NTC – National Technical Certificate; GCE – General Certificate of Education.</p><p>Demographics.</p

Association between gestational age at birth and fractional anisotropy of the neonatal brain.

<p>The left two columns show the statistical maps for the associations between gestational age at birth and fractional anisotropy of the neonatal brain, which were obtained from voxel-based analysis. The third column shows the scatter plots of FA in the CC region (top row) and in ACR/ALIC/EC regions (bottom row) highlighted in the left panels in relation with gestational age at birth. Abbreviations: CC --- corpus callosum; ACR --- anterior corona radiata; ALIC --- anterior limb of internal capsule; EC --- external capsule.</p

Statistical Maps of ethnic group difference in brain morphological shape (A) and fractional anisotropy (B).

<p>The anatomical coordinates of each axial slice are given at the bottom of each panel. Abbreviations: LG – lingual gyrus; PCR – posterior corona radiata; GP – globus pallidus; ALIC – anterior limb of internal capsule; CC – corpus callosum.</p

Demographic information.

<p>Demographic information.</p

Neonatal structural MRI and DTI atlases.

<p>Rows (A-C) respectively show the axial slices of the T2-weighted MRI, the DTI color map and fractional anisotropy (FA) atlases. The anatomical coordinates of individual axial slices are listed on the bottom of the figure.</p

Boxplots of mean deformation within each anatomical region extracted from voxel-based analysis on the brain morphological shape (see Figure 2A).

<p>The significant pairwise group differences are indicated using black asterisk.</p

P-values for pairwise group comparisons on brain morphological shape and fractional anisotropy within each brain region listed in Table 3.

<p>Abbreviations: LG – lingual gyrus; PCR – posterior corona radiata; GP – globus pallidus; ALIC – anterior limb of internal capsule; CC – corpus callosum.</p><p>Model 1: deformation ∼ ethnicity + post-gestational age + body weight on the MRI day; FA ∼ ethnicity + post-gestational age;</p><p>Model 2: deformation ∼ ethnicity + post-gestational age + body weight on the MRI day + household income; FA ∼ ethnicity + post-gestational age + household income;</p><p>Model 3: deformation ∼ ethnicity + post-gestational age + body weight on the MRI day + prenatal tobacco exposure FA ∼ ethnicity + post-gestational age + prenatal tobacco exposure.</p>*<p>group difference at the significance level of 0.0083 (0.05/6; Bonferroni correction for multiple ROIs).</p><p>- analysis was not performed since no group difference was found using model 1. The significance level was chosen as 0.05/6 to correct for multiple comparisons.</p