Pulmonary neuroendocrine cells and neuroepithelial bodies in sudden infant death syndrome: Potential markers of airway chemoreceptor dysfunction

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 106-116

  Cutz, Ernest ^a,b,c   Perrin, Donald G ^a   Pan, Jie ^b,c   Haas, Elisabeth A ^d,e   Krous, Henry F ^d,e,f  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f San Diego SIDS Research Project   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway chemoreceptors; Control of respiration; Hypoxia; Oxygen sensing; Sudden infant death syndrome

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BOMBESIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; INFANT MORTALITY; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROEPITHELIAL BODY; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHEMORECEPTORS; CHROMOGRANIN A; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; LUNG; MALE; NEUROEPITHELIAL BODIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 34147193577     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: 16155742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2350/06-06-0113.1     Document Type: Article

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