Thymic size is increased by infancy, but not pregnancy, nutritional supplementation in rural Gambian children: a randomized clinical trial

BACKGROUND: Thymic size in early infancy predicts subsequent survival in low-income settings. The human thymus develops from early gestation, is most active in early life and is highly sensitive to malnutrition. Our objective was to test whether thymic size in infancy could be increased by maternal...

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Autores principales: Moore, Sophie E., Fulford, Anthony J. C., Sosseh, Fatou, Nshe, Patrick, Darboe, Momodou K., Prentice, Andrew M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6378709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30773140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1264-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6378709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30773140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1264-2

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