The Late Preterm Infant and the Control of Breathing, Sleep, and Brainstem Development: A Review

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 883-914

  Darnall, Robert A ^a   Ariagno, Ronald L ^b   Kinney, Hannah C ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLUTAMIC ACID; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR; OXYGEN; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; BREATHING; BREATHING MUSCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; IMMATURITY; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; LUNG VOLUME; MECHANORECEPTOR; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEWBORN APNEA; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLEEP; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SUCKLING; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; SWALLOWING; THERMOREGULATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

APNEA; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BRAIN STEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LARYNX; REFLEX; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP;

EID: 34249081984     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2006.10.004     Document Type: Review

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