Perinatal asphyxia: Timing and mechanisms of injury in neonatal encephalopathy

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 175-184

  Scher, Mark ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth Asphyxia; Brain Injury; Cerebral Palsy; Neonatal Brain; Perinatal Asphyxia

Indexed keywords

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CYTOKINE;

APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; DELIVERY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS HYPOXIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ION TRANSPORT; LABOR COMPLICATION; METABOLISM; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECROSIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REPERFUSION INJURY; REVIEW; TIME;

APOPTOSIS; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL PALSY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYTOKINES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL DISTRESS; FETAL HYPOXIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INFANT, NEWBORN; ION TRANSPORT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NECROSIS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; REPERFUSION INJURY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035295748     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-001-0014-x     Document Type: Article

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