Early neurological and motor function in infants born moderate to late preterm or small for gestational age at term: a prospective cohort study.

Background: There are inconsistent findings regarding neurological and motor development in infants born moderate to late preterm and infants born small for gestational age at term. The primary aim of this study was to compare neurological and motor function between preterm, term SGA and term AGA infants aged three to seven months corrected age using several common assessment tools. The secondary aim was to investigate their motor function at two years.

Lower iron stores were associated with suboptimal gross motor scores in infants at 3-7 months.

Aim: To investigate associations between iron status and gross motor scores in infants aged 3-7 months.

Methods: In a prospective study, 252 infants aged 3-7 months were examined using the age-standardised Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) prior to analysing iron status in 250 infants. Combined AIMS and ferritin results were assessed in 226 infants, whereas AIMS and reticulocyte haemoglobin (ret-Hb) results were obtained for 61 infants.

Magnetophotoselection in the Investigation of Excitonically Coupled Chromophores: The Case of the Water-Soluble Chlorophyll Protein.

A magnetophotoselection (MPS) investigation of the photoexcited triplet state of chlorophyll both in a frozen organic solvent and in a protein environment, provided by the water-soluble chlorophyll protein (WSCP) of , is reported. The MPS experiment combines the photoselection achieved by exciting with linearly polarized light with the magnetic selection of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, allowing the determination of the relative orientation of the optical transition dipole moment and the zero-field splitting tensor axes in both environments. We demonstrate the robustness of the proposed methodology for a quantitative description of the excitonic interactions among pigments.