Prevention by maternal pancreatic islet transplantation of hypothalamic malformation in offspring of diabetic mother rats is already detectable at weaning

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 352, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 163-166

  Harder, Thomas ^a,b   Franke, Kerstin ^a   Fahrenkrog, Sonja ^a   Aerts, Leona ^b   Van Bree, Rieta ^b   Van Assche, F André ^b   Plagemann, Andreas ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fetal programming; Gestational diabetes; Hypothalamic malformation; Offspring of diabetic mother; Prevention; Treatment by pancreatic islet transplantation; Ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PERINATAL DEVELOPMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHAM TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION; WEANING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIABETES, GESTATIONAL; FEMALE; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 1542355406     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.08.066     Document Type: Article

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