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  • noun medicine The middle period of gestation

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Examples

  • Horses recommends that protein and energy requirements be raised 5 to 8% above maintenance during midgestation for an average (500-kg) mare (see Table).

    TheHorse.com News 2010

  • With no changes made to nutritional requirements in early gestation (0-4 months) or late gestation (9-11 months), Nutrient Requirements of Horses suggests nutritional changes primarily for mares during midgestation, the period between the fifth and eighth months of pregnancy.

    TheHorse.com News 2010

  • Oct4, Stat3, and Sox2 genes, which are known to be undifferentiated cell makers, are lethal before midgestation in mice

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Atsushi Fukuda et al. 2010

  • Beddington RS, Robertson EJ (1989) An assessment of the developmental potential of embryonic stem cells in the midgestation mouse embryo.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Rictor-deficient embryos die in midgestation around embryonic day 10.5 (E10. 5), suggesting that TORC2 is not required for early proliferative and developmental events.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2009

  • Meuli-Simmen C, Meuli M, Yingling CD, Eiman T, Timmel GB, Buncke HJ, Linenweaver W, Harrison MR, Adzick NS: Failure of the fetal sciatic nerve to regenerate at midgestation.

    CHOP publications spina bifida 2010

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