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Biology News - January 2007

Maternal Serotonin Levels Affect Embryonic Deveopment

January 1st 2007 07:22

Côté, et al., in a paper titled, "Maternal serotonin is crucial for murine embryonic development", demonstrate that lack of serotonin in early development contributes to abnormalities in brain and other tissues and a significant decrease in birth weight. Serotonin comes from the mother at that stage in life. Mice were used in the study. More research will be needed to determine the exact correlation with humans.

The article is free and online.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0606722104

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Comment by katyzzz

January 1st 2007 11:15

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Adele,

Like I said, the mice are not doing it for us.

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Comment by Adele

January 1st 2007 17:46

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True. More studies are needed for this one. It's an interesting article.

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