Epigenetic studies in children at risk of stunting and their parents in India, Indonesia and Senegal: a UKRI GCRF Action Against Stunting Hub protocol paper.

Introduction: In 2020, an estimated 150 million children under the age of 5 years were stunted. Stunting results from early-life adversity and it is associated with significant physical and cognitive deficit, lifelong socioeconomic disadvantage and reduced life expectancy. There is a need to understand the causes of stunting and its effects in order to develop strategies to avoid it and to mitigate the consequences once stunting has occurred.

Anthropometric, biochemical, dietary, morbidity and well-being assessments in women and children in Indonesia, India and Senegal: a UKRI GCRF Action Against Stunting Hub protocol paper.

Introduction: Child stunting has a complex aetiology, especially in the first 1000 days of life. Nutrition interventions alone have not produced expected impacts in reducing/preventing child stunting, indicating the importance of understanding the complex interplay between environmental, physiological and psychological factors influencing child nutritional status. This study will investigate maternal and child nutrition, health and well-being status and associated factors through the assessment of: (1) anthropometry, (2) biomarkers of nutrition and health status, (3) dietary intakes, (4) fetal growth and development, (5) infant morbidity, (6) infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and (7) perinatal maternal stress, depression and social support.

Stereochemical determination of NMR chemical shifts in marine terpenoids, antheliol and sangiangol B, using DFT calculations.

Stereochemical determination of the flexible trinor-guaiane sesquiterpenoid, antheliol () and the flexible diterpenoid, sangiangol B (), isolated from a marine soft coral, sp., was supported by quantum chemical calculations of NMR chemical shifts at DFT levels. The relative configuration of antheliol is now revealed, as 1, 4, 7, 10 as in , whereas sangiangol B () has complete stereochemistry as 1, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12.