Brain damage and axonal injury in a Scottish cohort of neonatal deaths

Brain

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1070-1081

  Bell, Jeanne E ^a,b   Becher, J C ^a   Wyatt, B ^a   Keeling, J W ^a   McIntosh, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amyloid precursor protein; Antepartum brain damage; Axonal injury; Neonatal death; Neuropathology

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM; CAPSULA INTERNA; COHORT ANALYSIS; EOSINOPHILIA; GLIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOMALACIA; MACROPHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PONS; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SUBICULUM; UNITED KINGDOM; WHITE MATTER;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; SCOTLAND;

EID: 18744397557     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh436     Document Type: Article

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