Maternal docosahexaenoic acid-enriched diet prevents neonatal brain injury

Neuropathology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 597-605

  Suganuma, Hiroki ^a   Arai, Yasuhiro ^a   Kitamura, Yohei ^b   Hayashi, Masaharu ^c   Okumura, Akihisa ^a   Shimizu, Toshiaki ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MORINAGA MILK INDUSTRY CO LTD   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Docosahexaenoic acid; Hypoxic ischemic brain injury; Maternal diet; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

8 HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE; CASPASE 3; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEONATAL BRAIN INJURY; NERVE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN INJURIES; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; PREGNANCY; RATS;

EID: 78149467783     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2010.01114.x     Document Type: Article

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