Effect of prenatal glucocorticoids on cerebral vasculature of the developing brain

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1766-1773

  Vinukonda, Govindaiah ^a   Dummula, Krishna ^a   Malik, Sabrina ^a   Hu, Furong ^a   Thompson, Carl I ^a   Csiszar, Anna ^b   Ungvari, Zoltan ^b   Ballabh, Praveen ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

betamethasone; germinal matrix; germinal matrix hemorrhage intraventricular hemorrhage; glucocorticoids; pericyte; TGF ; vasculature

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPOIETIN; BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BETAMETHASONE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICRODISSECTION; NERVE DEGENERATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RABBITS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 77955171251     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.588400     Document Type: Article

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