The connection between maternal thiamine shortcoming and offspring cognitive damage and poverty perpetuation in underprivileged communities across the world

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-16

  Dias, Fernando M V ^a,b   Silva, Danielle Marra de Freitas ^b   Doyle, Flavia Costa de Proença ^b   Ribeiro, Angela Maria ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THIAMINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BREAST FEEDING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE; MALNUTRITION; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROGENY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYNAPTOGENESIS; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; THIAMINE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84870918546     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2012.09.011     Document Type: Article

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