Malnutrition and group brain- and body-weight variability: data in search of a hypothesis.
Chronic malnutrition, which may be induced by a number of different experimental manipulations, appears, from a survey of the literature, to lead to greater relative whole-brain-weight variability in affected groups compared with controls; there is a tendency for the same pattern to emerge in the case of body-weight variability. A hypothesis which might throw some light on this general trend is proposed.
D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D008431:Maternal-Fetal Exchange; D008954:Models, Biological; D009929:Organ Size; D011247:Pregnancy; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000473:pathology*