Chronic postnatal hypoxia increases the numbers of cortical neurons

Brain Research

Volumn 760, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 17-21

  Stewart, William B ^a   Ment, Laura R ^a   Schwartz, Michael ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cell death; Cerebral cortex; Corticogenesis; Development; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOXIA; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CELL COUNT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030738561     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00271-0     Document Type: Article

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