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Open AccessMaternal obesity and offspring cardiovascular remodelling — the effect of preconception and antenatal lifestyle interventions: a systematic review
Preconception or antenatal lifestyle interventions in women with obesity may prevent adverse cardiovascular outcomes in the child, including cardiac remodelling. We undertook a systematic review of the existin...
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Depauperate survival bryozoans following the first episode of the end-Ordovician mass extinction in the Kuanyinchiao Bed (Hirnantian, Upper Ordovician) of northern Guizhou, South China
Few bryozoan faunas have been reported globally from the time of the late-Ordovician mass extinction (LOME). A depauperate bryozoan fauna from the Kuanyinchiao Bed of North Guizhou Province, South China are de...
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Open AccessLifestyle intervention in obese pregnancy and cardiac remodelling in 3-year olds: children of the UPBEAT RCT
Obesity in pregnancy has been associated with increased childhood cardiometabolic risk and reduced life expectancy. The UK UPBEAT multicentre randomised control trial was a lifestyle intervention of diet and p...
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Bryozoans from the Early Ordovician Fenhsiang Formation (Tremadocian) of South China and the early diversification of the phylum
Although phosphatized bryozoans have been described recently from the early Cambrian, the first unequivocal bryozoan fossils with hard skeletons are known from the Ordovician. Recent discoveries of bryozoans i...
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Open AccessFossil evidence unveils an early Cambrian origin for Bryozoa
Bryozoans (also known as ectoprocts or moss animals) are aquatic, dominantly sessile, filter-feeding lophophorates that construct an organic or calcareous modular colonial (clonal) exoskeleton1–3. The presence of...
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Supplementation with a prebiotic (polydextrose) in obese mouse pregnancy improves maternal glucose homeostasis and protects against offspring obesity
We hypothesised that maternal diet-induced-obesity has adverse consequences for offspring energy expenditure and susceptibility to obesity in adulthood, and that the prebiotic polydextrose (PDX) would prevent ...
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Open AccessColony growth strategies, dormancy and repair in some Late Cretaceous encrusting bryozoans: insights into the ecology of the Chalk seabed
Bryozoans are among the most common macrofossils in the Late Cretaceous Chalk. They include many species that encrusted hard substrates, notably echinoid tests, forming habitat islands on the Chalk seabed. The...
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Open AccessPaternal cholestasis exacerbates obesity-associated hypertension in male offspring but is prevented by paternal ursodeoxycholic acid treatment
Obesity is a heterogeneous phenotype and risk associations to non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes are influenced by several factors. The paternal metabolic status at th...
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Amisulpride in the prevention of nausea and vomiting induced by cisplatin-based chemotherapy: a dose-escalation study
The purpose of this study was to investigate the antiemetic effect of the dopamine D2- and dopamine D3-receptor antagonist, amisulpride, in patients receiving cisplatin-based chemotherapy.
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Evaluating potential factors influencing branch diameter and skeletal Mg-calcite using an Antarctic cyclostome bryozoan species
Environmental and biological factors play important roles in determining the skeletal morphology and mineralogy of modular colonial organisms such as bryozoans. The broad bathymetrical ranges of Antarctic bryo...
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Interactions between Cryptosula and Watersipora (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) on a ship’s hull in Qingdao Harbour (South Yellow Sea) after five and a half years of immersion
The distributions of two ubiquitous fouling cheilostome bryozoans, Cryptosula pallasiana (Moll, 1803) and Watersipora sp., on a ship moored for almost six years in Qingdao Bay show differences with respect to ill...
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New insights on the systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiology of a plesiosaurian with soft tissue preservation from the Toarcian of Holzmaden, Germany
The Posidonienschiefer Formation (Toarcian) of Holzmaden, Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany has yielded several excellently preserved plesiosaurian specimens and received considerable research attentio...
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Bryozoan fauna of the Boggy Formation (Deese Group, Pennsylvanian) of the Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry, Oklahoma, USA
The Middle to Upper Pennsylvanian Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry (Boggy Formation, Deese Group) of Oklahoma, USA, is well known for its exceptionally preserved fauna of marine invertebrates, including conservation of...
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Open AccessMaternal obesity alters endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis in offspring pancreas
The prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty pancreas disease (NAFPD) is increasing in parallel with obesity rates. Stress-related alterations in endoplasmic reticulum (ER), such as the unfolded protein response (UPR...
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Open AccessCalcitization of aragonitic bryozoans in Cenozoic tropical carbonates from East Kalimantan, Indonesia
Aragonite is commonly lost during the diagenesis of carbonate rocks, producing a significant bias in the fossil record. However, taphonomic loss of aragonitic biota can be nullified when skeletal aragonite is ...
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Bryozoans on the move: adaptations to hard substrate-limiting tropical heterozoan carbonates (Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania)
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On rediscovered types of Santonian cheilostome bryozoans described by Ehrhard Voigt (1924, 1930) from the Subhercynian Cretaceous Basin and its surroundings
Type material of three bryozoan species first described by Ehrhard Voigt in his early publications of 1924 and 1930 has been rediscovered. All bryozoan material described by Voigt between 1923 and 1942 was pre...
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Mineralogy of cheilostome bryozoans across the Eocene–Oligocene boundary in Mississippi, USA
Different cheilostome bryozoan species construct their skeletons from calcite, aragonite, or a combination of these two minerals. Calcite is the primitive biomineral in cheilostomes, but an increasing number o...
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A new species of the cheilostome bryozoan Chiastosella in the Southern Ocean, past and present
Understanding whether marine calcifying organisms may acclimatise to climate change is important with regard to their survival over the coming century. Due to cold waters having a naturally higher CO2 uptake, th...
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Open AccessPatterns of magnesium content in Arctic bryozoan skeletons along a depth gradient
A growing body of evidence suggests that ocean acidification acting synergistically with ocean warming alters carbonate biomineralization in a variety of marine biota. Magnesium often substitutes for Ca in the...