A previous work showed that motor neurons use Slit2 to promote their axon fasciculation by an autocrine or juxtaparacrine mechanism ( Jaworski and Tessier-Lavigne, 2012 ).

One reason for the assumption that the germ damage takes place from the effect of alcohol is that the incidence of moronism is higher among children of alcoholic parents than among children of nonalcoholic parents.

A man could no longer be challenged for his lands or his women-folk, since the only result of holmgang which the law would allow, apart from wounds or death, was a claim for the payment of the agreed stakes.

The master-cook began his career with apprenticeship at the lowest level, as a child of the kitchen, where he was subject to harsh discipline: as Olivier de la Marche points out, the master-cook's ladle was for hitting the children as well as for tasting sauces. Careers were often slow: in the French royal kitchens, Jean Jart was a child of the kitchen in 1386, and a master-cook only in 1418.