Auditory ossicles: a potential biomarker for maternal and infant health in utero.

Conclusions: There appears to be a systematic offset between the dentine and ossicle data. It seems that the second phase of development does not influence the isotopic values of collagen significantly and the data we are obtaining from ossicles represents the in utero period.
PMID: 31431091 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Annals of Human Biology - August 23, 2019 Category: Biology Tags: Ann Hum Biol Source Type: research