Premature birth: Hedgehog rushes to the rescue of the developing cerebellum

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 105, 2011, Pages

  Baud, Olivier ^a,b,c   Gressens, Pierre ^a,b,c,d  

^a HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c PremUP   (France)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL PALSY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 80054776497     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3003080     Document Type: Review

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38. Acknowledgments: The authors wish to thank B. Fleiss for her critical reading of the manuscript.