Possible correlation between high levels of IL-18 in the cord blood of pre-term infants and neonatal development of periventricular leukomalacia and cerebral palsy

Cytokine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 164-170

  Minagawa, Kyoko ^a   Tsuji, Yoshiyuki ^a   Ueda, Haruyasu ^a   Koyama, Koji ^a   Tanizawa, Koji ^a   Okamura, Haruki ^a   Hashimoto Tamaoki, Tomoko ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; Cord blood; Interleukin 18 (IL 18); Periventricular leukomalacia; Pre term infant

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; BLOOD; FETUS BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CEREBRAL PALSY; FETAL BLOOD; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-18; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0035988172     PISSN: 10434666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cyto.2001.0988     Document Type: Article

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