Intraventricular nerve growth factor infusion improves cerebral blood flow and stimulates doublecortin expression in two infants with hypoxic-ischemic brain injury

Neurological Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 223-228

  Chiaretti, Antonio ^a,b   Antonelli, Alessia ^a   Genovese, Orazio ^a   Fernandez, Eduardo ^a   Di Giuda, Daniela ^a   Mariotti, Paolo ^a   Riccardi, Riccardo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Doublecortin; Hypoxic ischemic brain injury; Nerve growth factor; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

DOUBLECORTIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; OSMOTIC DIURETIC AGENT;

APHASIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN PERFUSION; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMATOSE PATIENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FLACCID PARALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

ANIMALS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPEPTIDES; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 44449160372     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/016164107X247948     Document Type: Article

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