Maternal hypertension during pregnancy modifies the response of the immature brain to hypoxia-ischemia: Sequential MRI and behavioral investigations

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 264-272

  Letourneur, Annelise ^a   Freret, Thomas ^a   Roussel, Simon ^a   Boulouard, Michel ^a   Divoux, Didier ^a   Toutain, Jérôme ^a   Bernaudin, Myriam ^a   Schumann Bard, Pascale ^a   Bouet, Valentine ^a   Touzani, Omar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

Behavior; Hypertension; Induced tolerance; Ischemic preconditioning; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Neonatal ischemia; Perinatal hypoxia; Rats; Sensorimotor test; Spatial learning; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MAZE TEST; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RAT; ROTAROD TEST;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84856225915     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.10.014     Document Type: Article

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