Elective cesarean delivery affects gut maturation and delays microbial colonization but does not increase necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm pigs

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 294, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Siggers, R H ^a   Thymann, T ^a   Jensen, B B ^b   Molbak L ^c   Heegaard, P M H ^c   Schmidt, M ^a   Buddington, R K ^d   Sangild, P T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Birth; Cesarean section; Intestine; Vaginal

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROLASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; LACTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BRUSH BORDER; CESAREAN SECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE VILLUS; MATURATION; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; STOMACH ACID SECRETION; SWINE; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CESAREAN SECTION; COLOSTRUM; CYTOKINES; DIET; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; FETUS; GASTRIC ACIDITY DETERMINATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINES; MICROVILLI; ORGAN SIZE; PARTURITION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREGNANCY; STOMACH; SWINE;

EID: 40449126437     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00705.2007     Document Type: Article

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