Intrauterine inflammation, insufficient to induce parturition, still evokes fetal and neonatal brain injury

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 663-671

  Elovitz, Michal A ^a   Brown, Amy G ^a   Breen, Kelsey ^a   Anton, Lauren ^a   Maubert, Monique ^a   Burd, Irina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal brain injury; Immune response; Inflammation; Neuronal injury; Pregnancy; Preterm birth

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MATERNAL BLOOD; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; METRITIS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL LESION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLACENTA; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERUM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; NEURONS; PARTURITION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; UTERUS;

MUS;

EID: 80052422186     PISSN: 07365748     EISSN: 1873474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2011.02.011     Document Type: Article

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