effects of tobacco smoke on pregnancy Smoking in – Pregnancy Birth and Beyond Figure 1 from Smoking Cessation

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Our immune system is the vanguard and the only defence system that keeps us safe from all the foreign bodies that can potentially be fatal

Maternal smoking during pregnancy was found to significantly reduce the methylation of the gene PRDM8 (PR domain contain 8), which is a gene thats tightly regulated in a spatiotemporal manner during neural development and is important for regulating the morphological transition in neocortical development [4953]

Kind of like if you think about a pregnant woman who is drinking alcohol during the first trimester a lot can go wrong we can kind of poison the baby, which would not be a good thing, and really can end up with some terrible consequences

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