Beyond white matter damage: fetal neuronal injury in a mouse model of preterm birth

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 201, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 279.e1-279.e8

  Burd, Irina ^a   Chai, Jinghua ^a   Gonzalez, Juan ^a   Ofori, Ella ^a   Monnerie, Hubert ^b   Le Roux, Peter D ^b   Elovitz, Michal A ^a  

^a Ctr for Res on Repro and W H   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

mouse model; neuroinflammation; neuronal injury; preterm birth

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL DEATH; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; FEMALE; FETUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL LESION; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 69349100428     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2009.06.013     Document Type: Article

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