Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism in the Developing Fetus

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 531-548

  du Plessis, Adré J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain development; Fetal brain; Fetal circulation; Fetal energy metabolism; Fetal hypoxia

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANGIOGENESIS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN STEM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIENCEPHALON; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY METABOLISM; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS MOVEMENT; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GESTATION PERIOD; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE GROWTH; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; REVIEW; SYNAPTOGENESIS; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 69549120342     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2009.07.002     Document Type: Review

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