The Instrumented Fetal Sheep as a Model of Cerebral White Matter Injury in the Premature Infant

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 359-370

  Back, Stephen A ^a   Riddle, Art ^a   Dean, Justin ^a   Hohimer, A Roger ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Cerebral palsy; Hypoxia ischemia; MRI; Myelin; Oligodendrocyte; Ovine; White matter

Indexed keywords

BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBRAL WHITE MATTER INJURY; DISEASE MODEL; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBRUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

EID: 84859723922     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: 18787479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13311-012-0108-y     Document Type: Review

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