Ependymal alterations in sudden intrauterine unexplained death and sudden infant death syndrome: Possible primary consequence of prenatal exposure to cigarette smoking

Neural Development

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Lavezzi, Anna M ^a   Corna, Melissa F ^a   Matturri, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; EPENDYMA; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GLIA; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SMOKING; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; APOPTOSIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPENDYMA; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FOURTH VENTRICLE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEUROGLIA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; SMOKING; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 77954674314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8104-5-17     Document Type: Article

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